What's new in System Design Strategies 36th Edition

Spring 2015 What's New in System Design Strategies 36th Edition.

This chapter identifies System Design Strategies content changes since January 2015. The SDSwiki Fall 35th Edition and this chapter identify updates to the System Architecture Design Strategies (SADS) course documentation since the July 2014 course release. SADS course presentation material is updated throughout the year to keep pace with technology, with reference content shared through this SDSwiki site.

This is a new release. No content changes are included since the final SDSwiki 35th Edition.

System Design Process

 * Platform capacity calculations Updated to represent ArcGIS 10.3 standard workflows with default 1366x768 display resolution.

Software performance

 * Software Performance Updates ArcGIS 10.2 workflow recipes to ArcGIS 10.3 workflow recipes throughout the chapter.
 * Include link to Dynamic Layers in the help documentation.
 * Update High performance imagery services section with link to Designing and Optimizing Image Services for High-Performance Analysis.
 * Update Figure 3.20 Selecting the right output format to share current CPT adjustment values.

Network communications

 * Network latency example Update response times to represent 19x7 display resolution for default ArcGIS for Desktop workstation workflows.
 * Network contribution to Web performance Update response times to represent performance impacts with 19x7 display resolution.

GIS Product Architecture

 * GIS product architecture Updates are incorporated throughout the chapter to focus on the ArcGIS 10.3 software release.
 * Updates to incorporate ArcGIS 10.3 ArcGIS for Server multiple site deployment patterns
 * > Enterprise development, staging, and production operations
 * > Active-Passive ArcGIS for Server Failover configurations
 * > Data Center COOP/DR Failover configurations
 * > Optional high capacity single-machine GIS Server Site active-active configuration tier


 * ArcGIS 10.3 updates to Portal for ArcGIS architecture.

Platform performance

 * Platform performance Updates throughout the chapter to include the ArcGIS 10.3 release.
 * Performance and sizing updates to incorporate heavier default client display resolution processing loads.
 * > Faster platforms provide more service with less hardware 1366x768 display resolution.
 * > Web map display performance history 1366x768 display resolution.
 * > ArcGIS for Desktop terminal server platform capacity changes 1920x1080 client display resolution.
 * > SDE geodatabase server platform capacity changes 1920x1080 client display resolution.
 * > Web mapping server platform capacity changes 1366x768 client display resolution.

Information Security

 * ArcGIS for Server security authentication and authorization
 * > ArcGIS for Server tier authentication
 * > Enterprise level Web tier authentication


 * Web GIS access and privileges
 * ArcGIS Online security authentication and authorization
 * > ArcGIS Online authentication
 * > ArcGIS Online SAML Authentication


 * Portal for ArcGIS security authentication and authorization
 * > Portal for ArcGIS server authentication
 * > Portal for ArcGIS Enterprise level Web tier authentication


 * Cloud implementation options

System Implementation

 * Updates to Integrated system design process

City of Rome

 * City of Rome Year 1 CPT analysis includes links to content moved to the Capacity Planning Tool appendix.
 * Updates to include the integrated Design tab pricing model.
 * > Physical platform solution summary: Year 1
 * > High-availability virtual platform solution summary: Year 1


 * City of Rome Year 2 CPT analysis includes links to content moved to the Capacity Planning Tool appendix.
 * Updates to include the integrated Design tab pricing model.
 * > High-availability virtual platform solution summary: Year 2
 * > Data center solution without web public services: Year 2]
 * > Police high-availability virtual platform solution summary

Capacity Planning Tool
Capacity Planning Tool (CPT) appendix provides CPT demonstrations of system design content introduced in each SDSwiki chapter. Hyperlinks connect SDSwiki chapter content with CPT demonstrations included in this appendix.

System Design Process

 * System Design Process Updated 14 CPT Figures with the Arc14CapacityPlanning0101 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Added new CPT user needs summary
 * Added new CPT HWPricing tab: Hardware procurement costs
 * Added new CPT Design tab: Hardware/Software cost analysis

GIS Software Technology

 * GIS Software Technology Updated 6 CPT Figures in this section with the Arc14CapacityPlanning0101 Capacity Planning Tool release.

Software Performance (CPT Calculator)

 * Software Performance (CPT Demos) Updated 14 CPT Figures with the Arc14CapacityPlanning0101 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Added new section on high performance imagery services

Server Software Performance

 * Server Software Performance Updated 7 CPT Figures in this section with the Arc14CapacityPlanning0101 Capacity Planning Tool release.

GIS Data Administration

 * GIS Data Administration. Updated 13 CPT Figures in this section with the Arc14CapacityPlanning0101 Capacity Planning Tool release.

Network Communications

 * Network Communications. Updated 9 CPT Figures in this section with the Arc14CapacityPlanning0101 Capacity Planning Tool release.

Product Architecture

 * Product Architecture. Updated 33 CPT Figures in this section with the Arc14CapacityPlanning0101 Capacity Planning Tool release.

Platform Performance

 * Platform Performance Updated 11 CPT Figures with the Arc14CapacityPlanning0101 Capacity Planning Tool release.

Performance Management

 * Performance Management Updated 10 CPT Figures with the Arc14CapacityPlanning0101 Capacity Planning Tool release.

City of Rome

 * City of Rome Updated 29 CPT Figures with the Arc14CapacityPlanning0101 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * New City of Rome Year 1 section providing links for CPT analysis from City of Rome Chapter.
 * > CPT Design analysis for high-availability virtual platform solution: Year 1 CPT update incorporates recommended HA platform failover memory requirements - minimum configuration with Figure 12.26 was eliminated from the design analysis.


 * New City of Rome Year 2 section providing links for CPT analysis from City of Rome Chapter.
 * > CPT Design analysis for high-availability virtual platform solution: Year 2 CPT update incorporates recommended HA platform failover memory requirements - minimum configuration with Figure 12.35 was eliminated from the design analysis.
 * > CPT Design analysis for data center without hosting public Web services CPT update incorporates recommended HA platform failover memory requirements - minimum configuration with Figure 12.40 was eliminated from the design analysis.

Previous Editions
What’s new in System Design Strategies 35th Edition What’s new in System Design Strategies 34th Edition What’s new in System Design Strategies 33rd Edition

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