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Identify Data Centers

Multiple factors, which are discussed later, can influence how you decide to implement SiteMinder components across multiple data centers. Identifying the data centers and the purpose each is to serve in your SiteMinder environment prepares you to make informed decisions when determining how to implement SiteMinder components. Consider the following questions:

• How many data centers does your deployment include and where is each center located?
• If you have multiple data centers:
  • Will they all be active or are some only intended for disaster recover or backup?
  • Will each protected application reside in a single data center or across multiple centers?
  • Will you configure failover on the data center-level or across data centers?
  • What is the bandwidth and throughput between the data centers?

When gathering information about each data center, use a resource table similar to the following to organize your results: