It is important to understand the tasks that need to be performed to prepare for an enterprise deployment.

This part of the enterprise deployment guide contains the following topics.

• Using the Enterprise Deployment Workbook
  The Enterprise Deployment workbook enables you to plan an enterprise deployment for your organization.
• Procuring Resources for an Enterprise Deployment
  It is essential to procure the required hardware, software, and network settings before you configure the Oracle Analytics Server reference topology.
• Preparing the Load Balancer and Firewalls for an Enterprise Deployment
  It is important to understand how to configure the hardware load balancer and ports that must be opened on the firewalls for an enterprise deployment.
• Preparing the File System for an Enterprise Deployment
  Preparing the file system for an enterprise deployment involves understanding the requirements for local and shared storage, as well as the terminology that is used to reference important directories and file locations during the installation and configuration of the enterprise topology.
• Preparing the Host Computers for an Enterprise Deployment
  It is important to perform a set of tasks on each computer or server before you configure the enterprise deployment topology. This involves verifying the minimum hardware and operating system requirements for each host, configuring operating system users and groups, enabling Unicode support, mounting the required shared storage systems to the host and enabling the required virtual IP addresses on each host.
• Preparing the Database for an Enterprise Deployment
  Preparing the database for an enterprise deployment involves ensuring that the database meets specific requirements, creating database services, using SecureFiles for large objects in the database, and creating database backup strategies.