Software and Hardware Considerations

Many factors can influence the software and hardware decisions. For example, your system may have to satisfy specific performance, availability, or scalability requirements, or to support running in a language other than English. These business requirements, together with the chosen system architecture, should be used in initial software and hardware planning.

Some of the questions that you should answer before beginning the installation include:

• On which hardware platform and operating system will Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter be deployed?

• Which web server product will Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter deploy on?

• Which database product will Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter deploy on?

• Do you plan to deploy multiple Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter instances on the same physical server?

• How do you plan to deploy Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter?

• Web/application/database on the same physical server?

• Web/application on one server and database on separate server?

• Each component on its own server?

For detailed descriptions of various deployment architecture choices that may aid in planning, please see the document Oracle Utilities Application Framework Architecture Guidelines, available on My Oracle Support (Article ID 807068.1).

The final hardware and software decisions must comply with the specific requirements of the Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter product, as described in the rest of this chapter.