5 Scale Your Deployment

This chapter describes how to manage the capacity and availability of your deployment. By default, system components are installed in a cluster configuration and are scalable. User web requests can be directed to one of many Oracle BI Presentation Services components. In turn, each Presentation Services component can take advantage of the availability of multiple Oracle BI Servers.

You can expand or reduce the capacity of the system by adjusting the number of processes available to the cluster. Increasing or decreasing the capacity of a system by making effective use of resources is known as scalability. A scalable system can handle increasing numbers of requests without adversely affecting response time and throughput.

Topics:

• About Scaling Oracle Analytics Server

• Set Up Shared Files and Directories

• Manage Capacity (Vertically Scale)

• Manage Availability (Horizontally Scale)

• Validate that Your System Has Been Scaled Correctly