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Planning Your Installation
Before installing the Place application, you must first determine the performance and availability goals for your business, and then plan the hardware, network, and storage requirements accordingly. This chapter provides some basic considerations for the implementation. It also includes the list of hardware and software requirements.
This chapter includes the following sections:
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Overview of the Planning Process
Supported Configurations
Overview of the Planning Process
Planning your implementation prior to an installation also gives you a better understanding of the environment, and enables you to adapt faster to any future changes in the environment setup.
This section contains the following topics:
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Planning Your Environment
Planning for Optimal Place Performance
Planning Your Environment
Use the following steps to plan and prepare the product environment:
1.Plan and design the infrastructure, based on your business needs, for the installation. This includes:
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Meeting the hardware and associated software requirements.
Acquiring the prerequisite software (and licensing).
Setting up the load balancers and clusters.
Gathering the capacity data.
Planning the data security policies.
Designing the backup and recovery strategies.
2.Determine the size of the implementation.
3.Identify source systems. Identify the systems that will exchange data with Place.
Planning Your Installation