What's new in System Design Strategies 39th Edition

Fall 2016 What's New in System Design Strategies 39th Edition.


 * Updates to the System Architecture Design Strategies training introduced in the fall of 2016 are documented in this section.

System Design Process

 * Updated System Design Process chapter to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Add Capacity planning terminology section.

GIS Software technology

 * Updated GIS Software Technology chapter to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Add new GIS architecture is evolving
 * Add new Web GIS architecture
 * Add new ArcGIS for Desktop is evolving
 * Add new 3D Visualization
 * Add new Vector tiles section
 * Add new ArcGIS portal architecture
 * Update Mobile Operations replacing Windows Mobile with Collector and Workforce for ArcGIS.

Software performance

 * Updated Software Performance chapter to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Updated ArcGIS for Desktop workflow recipe.
 * Updated ArcGIS for Server workflow recipe.
 * Updated Image service workflow recipe.

Server software performance

 * Updated Server Software Performance chapter to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * New GIS Server single-cluster mode.
 * New GIS Server read-only mode.

GIS Data Administration

 * Updated GIS Data Administration chapter to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * New section on COOP requirements

Network communications

 * Updated Network Communications chapter to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Updated Network latency example
 * Updated Network contribution to Web performance

GIS Product Architecture

 * Updated GIS Product Architecture chapter to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * New removing GIS Server cluster aware load balancing for optimum ArcGIS for Server site scalability.
 * Federated ArcGIS for Server sites architecture expanded to include capabilities for fine grained restricted access.
 * Hosted server site and associated data store can be established for each Portal deployment.

Platform performance

 * Updated Platform Performance section to incorporate 2016 platform technology and the updated Capacity Planning Tool Arc16 performance baseline.

Information Security

 * Update Figure 9.8 ArcGIS for Server tier authentication to include 3rd party reverse proxy option.
 * Add Enterprise ArcGIS for Server tier autentication.
 * Add Enterprise Portal for ArcGIS tier authentication.
 * Update Web GIS deployment options
 * Update Figure 9.21 availability mitigation strategies.
 * Added new business continuance sections.
 * Business continuance: Server GIS components
 * Business continuance: Portal for ArcGIS components
 * Business continuance: ArcGIS Data Store components
 * Business continuance: Web GIS components

Performance Management

 * Updated Performance Management chapter to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * New Workflow performance targets.
 * New Web service peak throughput
 * New Display response time
 * New ArcGIS for Server Site processing overhead.
 * New Virtualization hypervisor processing overhead.

City of Rome

 * Updated City of Rome chapter to incorporate 2016 platform technology and the updated Capacity Planning Tool Arc16 performance baseline.

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

 * Updated System Design Process section to incorporate Arc15CapacityPlanning0301 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Updated System Design Process section to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.

GIS Software Technology

 * Updated GIS Software Technology section to incorporate Arc15CapacityPlanning0301 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * New Project Workflow Assignment (Standard Workflows).
 * Updated GIS Software Technology section to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.

Software Performance (CPT Calculator)

 * Updated Software Performance section to incorporate Arc15CapacityPlanning0301 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Updated Software Performance section to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Introduced a new software category selection to simplify the dropdown selection list for software technology patterns and expand capability to include additional software categories within the CPT Calculator.
 * Introduced ability to access filtered software technology patterns based on the selected software category.
 * Expanded display complexity dropdown selection list to support up to 10x Medium complexity workflows.
 * Expand capability of the %DataCache selection to include any direct percentage value entry (entry does not have to match dropdown selection).
 * New Project Workflow Assignment (Custom Workflows)

Server Software Performance

 * Updated Server Software Performance section to incorporate Arc15CapacityPlanning0301 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Updated Server Software Performance section to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * New CPT Calculator batch process instance configuration.
 * New CPT Design optional AutoBatch selection for automating batch process workflow productivity calculations.
 * New CPT batch process pooling configuration throughput summary.
 * New CPT Web service pooling configuration throughput summary

GIS Data Administration

 * Updated GIS Data Administration section to incorporate Arc15CapacityPlanning0301 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Updated GIS Data Administration section to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Simplified CPT Calculator Imagery workflow configuration.

Network Communications

 * Updated Network Communications section to incorporate Arc15CapacityPlanning0301 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Updated Network Communications section to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * CPT Calculator Tab network suitability includes user productivity assessment

GIS Product Architecture

 * Updated GIS Product Architecture section to incorporate Arc15CapacityPlanning0301 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Updated GIS Product Architecture section to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Calculator ArcGIS for Desktop workstation workflows direct connect architecture provided as the default configuration (no need to select DC architecture in cell A11).
 * Calculator ArcGIS for Desktop Citrix workflows direct connect architecture provided as the default configuration (no need to select DC architecture in cell A11).

Platform Performance

 * Updated Platform Performance section to incorporate Arc15CapacityPlanning0301 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Updated Platform Performance section to incorporate Arc16CapacityPlanning0701 Capacity Planning Tool release.

Performance Management

 * Updated Performance Management section to incorporate Arc15CapacityPlanning0301 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * New CPT Calculator automatic workflow productivity adjustment
 * New CPT Calculator batch process capacity planning capability
 * New batch process performance contention discussion.
 * New Multi-core platform performance discussion.
 * New ArcGIS for Server Site scalability discussion.
 * New ArcGIS for Server Virtual Machine (VM) performance discussion.

City of Rome

 * Updated City of Rome Year 1 (CPT Demos) section to incorporate Arc15CapacityPlanning0301 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Updated City of Rome Year 2 (CPT Demos) section to incorporate Arc15CapacityPlanning0301 Capacity Planning Tool release.
 * Updated CPT Design analysis for high-availability Virtual Server platform configuration: Year 2
 * Updated CPT Design analysis for data center without hosting public Web platform configuration: Year 2

CPT A1: Capacity Planning Tool Administration

 * Capacity_Planning_Tool_Administration appendix.

Planning for Building a GIS

 * Planning for Building a GIS provides videos for completing a user needs assessment in preparation for a System Architecture Design.

Previous Editions
What’s new in System Design Strategies 38th Edition What’s new in System Design Strategies 37th Edition What’s new in System Design Strategies 36th Edition 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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