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Scalability Overview

This section provides best practices and recommendations for the deployment of CA Server Automation. The purpose of the document is to assist with the planning of a roll out of CA Server Automation within a production environment, with particular focus on:

• Monitoring and CA Server Automation Management of VMware Environments
• Monitoring of IBM LPAR Environments
• Monitoring of Oracle Solaris Zones Environments
• Deployment of SystemEDGE and other Monitoring Software
• Initial and on-going configuration of SystemEDGE

The following sections are included:

1. Remote Deployment and Policy Configuration Overview
2. Hardware Specifications
3. Database Considerations
4. Network Considerations
5. Scalability Recommendations and Limitations
6. Scalability Use Cases