Planning the SMA infrastructure

SMA works on the distributed architecture to allow an easy and non-disruptive scale in and out of the operations. The following aspects must be taken into consideration while planning the infrastructure for SMA deployment:

• Planning for availability

• Planning for performance/capacity

Planning for availability

All the components of the SMA solution can be protected against a single point of failure by adding redundant servers. The following guidelines include the recommended configuration with respect to the availability of each role:

• The SMA web service role: This is recommended to deploy multiple web service roles (the minimum recommendation is two for high availability) and configure with a load balancer. Any administrative endpoint such as the WAP portal must point to the load balancer to communicate with the SMA web service.

• The SMA worker role: It is recommended to deploy multiple SMA worker roles (the minimum recommendation is two for high availability) to avoid...