NOTE: The sections in this topic are intended for the primary production environment of an Insight installation. Not all recommendations for hardware and configuration can be, nor need to be followed for other parallel installed environments, such as testing or development environments.
The Insight software is a multitiered application that requires effective planning and deployment to ensure optimal system performance. You should consider performance factors in all layers of the Insight application architecture. As with many enterprise-wide applications, multiple variables affect deployment decisions.
This chapter identifies many factors to consider. Because IT infrastructures are varied and diverse, the recommendations in the following topics are not intended to be absolute recommendations. Rather, they are ideas to consider when implementing Insight in your environment.
The following subtopics discuss performance considerations for the Insight application components: