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Directory Deployment Considerations

This chapter discusses issues to consider when deploying Oracle Internet Directory. It helps you assess enterprise directory requirements and make effective deployment choices. Although the recommendations in this chapter are primarily for directories in medium to large enterprises and Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the principles apply to other environments as well.

This chapter contains these topics:

• The Expanding Role of Directories

• Logical Organization Of Directory Information

• Physical Distribution: Partitions, Replicas, and High Availability

• The Oracle Directory Integration and Provisioning Platform

• Capacity Planning, Sizing, and Tuning

• Multiple installations of Oracle Internet Directory on one host

  See Also: Chapter 20, "Capacity Planning for the Directory" for more detailed information about capacity planning Chapter 26, "High Availability And Failover Considerations" for more detailed information about high availability Chapter 21, "Tuning Considerations for the Directory" for more detailed information about tuning "Directory Replication and High Availability" for information about failover in clustered environments