Abstract: A series of Window screens are provided with queries to gather customer data for the customer's enterprise operations. Data on site locations, number of users, types of users and Application Programs utilized and their relationships are accumulated into a Configuration Session Database which serves as a foundation of the Customer's Profile which can later be used to configure a suitable design of Server Farms for the customer.

Abstract: A method and procedure is established for utilization in a Thin Client Sizing Tool which has established an optimized solution of one or more Server Farms to fit a customer's profile. Part of implementing this solution is the provision of establishing adequate memory for the Server Farm or group of Server Farms. A methodology is provided whereby each operating system is correlated to each User type which is correlated to each application and then increased by the number of particular User types and the number of applications involved in order to establish the total memory requirements for a Server Farm or Metafarm.

Abstract: A method is provided for generating a configuration solution such as for a Server Farm or a Server Metafarm which can be optimally designed and configured after information has been developed on the customer's profile and there has been calculated a base solution indicating the appropriate number of servers, proper disk space and memory requirements.

Abstract: A Thin Client Sizing Tool provides a method for developing a proposal for an optimized Server Farm, or collection of Server Farms, which will provide the most suitable configuration for each specialized enterprise of a customer.

Abstract: A Thin Client Sizer, used to configure an optimal Server Farm, requires specific data regarding the category level of utilization, by each User, of each of the Applications available to the Server Farm. A method is presented for input to a Solution Configurator to select and categorize each User-Type User as to add in his utilization of each Application used in the Server Farm.

Abstract: A method for sizing Server Farms and developing an Metafarm which allocates the optimum number of Users to each Server Farm in the complex while also providing an optimized configuration of Server Farms having a desired Availability Level and suitable redundancy to fulfill the requirements and needs in a customer's enterprise.

Abstract: A novel sales system of complex products whose configuration is designed based on the customer requirements provides method steps for generating guarantee offers. A value of the guarantee criterion for the complex product (such as product availability) can be evaluated only after the complex product configuration is determined. For each combination of the customer requirements, a system configuration and a corresponding value of the guarantee criterion is generated. Then, this value is used for the customer remedy calculations.