Chapter 1. Hardware Planning

In this chapter, we will learn about selection and provisioning of hardware necessary to build a highly available PostgreSQL database. We will cover the following recipes in this chapter:

• Planning for redundancy
• Having enough IOPS
• Sizing storage
• Investing in a RAID
• Picking a processor
• Making the most of memory
• Exploring nimble networking
• Managing motherboards
• Selecting a chassis
• Saddling up to a SAN
• Tallying up
• Protecting your eggs