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General Considerations in Planning Your Siebel Deployment

You must plan where to install the various Siebel components on your servers. This section contains several topics about issues you must consider.

• Planning Topologies
• Preparing the Hardware
• Planning Siebel Server Load Balancing
• Planning Disk Space Requirements
• Planning RDBMS Installation and Configuration
• Managing Siebel Image Directories and Media Files
• Managing Temporary Disk Space Required by Installers
• The Language in Which Siebel Installers and Wizards Run
• Installing Multiple Instances of Siebel Business Applications
• Specifying the Locale for Siebel Applications
• Specifying the Locale for Your UNIX Operating System
• Setting Permissions and Ownership
• Installing from a Remote Server Machine
• Siebel Server and Enterprise Server Naming Conventions
• File and Directory Naming Conventions
• Creating the Siebel File System
• Creating the Siebel Service Owner Account