IBM REDP-4372-00 manual Real world deployment scenarios

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Chapter 6. Real world deployment scenarios

In a real-world environment, there will normally be (at least) a development environment and a production environment. Depending on network capacity between sites, and requirements for deployment and restore-time, it may prove more practical with one production server for each site.

This chapter provides information about setting up an environment consisting of a central environment for development and testing with several production servers distributed to local sites. It is also explained how newly created profiles, software packages and deployment schemes are staged from development/test to production servers.

In this chapter we also discuss implementation, architecture, and common challenges of the point-of-sale environment. Subjects such as server sizing and placement, distributions using unicast and multicast, firewalls, and security considerations are discussed.

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