Detailed planning and infrastructure acquisition

You have qualified the remote site and are ready to figure out the infrastructure:

  • Establish a playground to master the technology.
  • Plan production and test infrastructure; order any equipment needed.
  • Plan usage, administration, and support processes.
  • Plan rollout.

MultiSite playground

A playground is a trivial test environment that you can set up right now using existing equipment to help you better understand the product functionality as you work through planning.

Refer to “Getting started: Setting up a MultiSite playground” on page 291 for a walk-through of a playground setup. Figure 12-11 shows the progression from playground to test to production environments. Once a formal test environment ...

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