As more customers tackle the Release 12.1.3 upgrade, finding additional ways to minimize upgrade time has become a key goal. Reducing the time to upgrade has several benefits: This book hones in on key ways to tune your upgrade and has the benefit of improving overall performance of your E-Business Suite environment after the upgrade as well. Learn about the benefits of Solid State Drives, Automatic Storage Management, and a hardware architecture suited to the E-Business Suite workload. Most importantly, you'll learn about tuning I/O and CPU utilization for R12 systems. Based on TruTek's experience gained by repeatedly upgrading test environments for our clients, upgrade training classes, and client production upgrades, we've included solutions for problems that we've seen along the way.