An enterprise deployment architecture for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition using Sun servers running Solaris and Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems is described in a Sun BluePrints article. The architecture brings fault tolerance, security, resiliency and performance to enterprise deployments, and can be used to consolidate multiple tiers onto a single system through the use of key virtualization technologies.

The deployment architecture consists of:

• Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System
• Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 Servers
• Brocade FastIron LS Switch
• Brocade ServerIron
• Sun Logical Domains
• Solaris Containers
• Sun Java System Directory Server5
• Oracle Database 11g with Real Application Cluster Technology
• Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition
• Oracle WebLogic Server

The paper's coverage of the architecture implementation reports on:

• Selecting Hardware Platforms
• Configuring the Load Balancer
• Installing the Solaris 10 Operating System
• Setting Up Sun Logical Domains
• Configuring Solaris Zones
• Installing Oracle Database 11g with RAC
• Installing Oracle Business Intelligence Server
• Shared Storage Configuration
• Oracle Business Intelligence Scheduler Configuration
• Cluster-Aware Business Intelligence Server Cache
• Installing Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Presentation Services
• Installing the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
• Presentation Services Plug-in
• Configuring the Oracle Business Intelligence Cluster Controller
• Configuring Sun Java System Directory Server

Written by Maqsood Alam, Luojia Chen, Chaitanya Kadaru, Ron Graham and Giri Mandalika, the 40-page document offers a short discussion of the performance characteristics of the architecture using a realistic workload running a series of tests that used an HP Load Runner script to simulate 2,500 users accessing business intelligence dashboards and underlying data. Best practices for deployment are related.

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