When implementing Financial Management, it is best to create multiple environments. At a minimum, there should be a development and production environment using totally different hardware. The best scenario is to have three environments (development, test, and production) with the test and production using identical hardware and software configurations.
Creating a cluster should be considered when one of more of the following conditions are present:
There is a large number of concurrent users.
24x7 operation is required.
High availability is required.
Note: | For detailed information about high availability solutions, see the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System High Availability and Disaster Recovery Guide. |
Single-server environments (where all components are on a single server) are not a recommended configuration unless you are implementing a single Financial Management application with fewer than 10 total users.