Tag: Sizing

Health Checking a Couchbase Cluster
Most databases are configured and sized correctly based on the information available at the time of their initial launch, but they tend to become unhealthy or undersized due to organic growth of their datasets and/or changes in their workload profiles....

How Many Nodes? Part 4: Monitoring for Sizing
Welcome back everyone, this will be the last post in this series around sizing. In the previous posts I provided an overview of the considerations when sizing a Couchbase Server cluster, a deeper look at how various features/versions affect this...

How Many Nodes? Part 3: Hardware considerations
The first two parts of this series covered an overview of the 5 factors of sizing a Couchbase Server cluster, and a more in depth look at various use cases and features and the effects they have on sizing. The...

How Many Nodes? Part 2: Sizing a Couchbase Server 2.0 cluster
In the first part of this series, I gave an overview of the 5 factors that determine the sizing of your Couchbase cluster: RAM, disk (IO and size), CPU, network and data distribution. In this second part, I want to...

How Many Nodes? Part 1: An introduction to sizing a Couchbase Server 2.0 cluster
The first part of this series gives an overview of the considerations that should be taken into account when sizing a Couchbase Server 2.0 cluster for production. The second part takes a deeper look at specific use cases and scenarios. The...