About Deployment Design

Deployment design begins with the deployment scenario created during the logical design and technical requirements phases of the solution life cycle. The deployment scenario contains a logical architecture and the quality of service (QoS) requirements for the solution. You map the components identified in the logical architecture across physical servers and other network devices to create a deployment architecture. The QoS requirements provide guidance on hardware configurations for performance, availability, scalability, and other related QoS specifications.

Designing the deployment architecture is an iterative process. You typically revisit the QoS requirements and reexamine your preliminary designs. You take into account the interrelationship of the QoS requirements, balancing the trade-offs and cost of ownership issues to arrive at an optimal solution that ultimately satisfies the business goals of the project.