Recommended Installation Location and Example Deployments

There are a countless number of possible arrangements for all the products available on the MicroStrategy platform, and what you decide to do depends largely on your installation environment and requirements. In general, though, the following recommendations are usually true for a typical business intelligence system:

• Intelligence Server should be installed on its own dedicated server machine.
• MicroStrategy Web should be installed on its own dedicated Web server machine.
• The rest of the products can be installed in varying combinations depending on who intends to use them and on what machines.

These are just suggestions to help you get started. Read the rest of this chapter for more detailed guidelines.

The following sections provide basic examples of differently sized production deployments with MicroStrategy products. The examples are generalized and do not include all of the MicroStrategy products. You can use these examples to help plan how to deploy MicroStrategy products.

Small production deployment

Medium production deployment

Large production deployment