Deployment Planning
Key Considerations
Example Business Context Goals:
• Simplify and standardize processes
• Enable self service
• Compliance
• Database Consolidation
• Hardware Consolidation
• Hardware Centralization
• Distributed Reporting
• Fault Tolerant
Key Considerations 2
Deployment Architecture Definition
You can now define, document, and scope the proposed QAD technical architecture for the deployment.
Operating Systems
Supported Operating Systems
AIX
• 5.3 supported
• 6.1 and 7.1 certified for Enterprise Edition
HP-UX
• Requires the installation of the Expat XML parser, an open-source tool required for parsing XML.
• http://expat.sourceforge.net
• http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Development/Tools/expat-2.0.1/
• Install this tool before installing QDT
Red Hat Linux
• Enterprise Server: Max 2 sockets. Does not support high availability clustering
• ES: Max 2 sockets and 16 GB RAM
• In RHEL 5, Red Hat ES becomes Red Hat Enterprise and Red Hat AS becomes Red Hat Advanced Platform.
Red Hat Enterprise Desktop
• 4, 5, and 6 are all supported
• 4 is now off the certification grid
• Only 5 and 6 are tested during release cycles
SuSE
• 10 tested. 11 optional testing performed
rPath release 1
• Not tested
Supported Operating Systems 2
Required Software
Google Chrome: Not officially supported, but seems to work fine.
IE versions: 5.5 SP2 or higher.
Versions 8 and 9 run in compatibility mode.
Vista/7: Install as administrator.
