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Planning your SAP Data Intelligence deployment

Planning your SAP Data Intelligence deployment

Currently, SAP Data Intelligence 3.2 is available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 in IBM Cloud. IBM Cloud manages the platform for you; you select the size and number of worker nodes and the geographic locations of one or more data centers.

When planning your deployment, you set the flavor of your worker nodes within your Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud on the IBM Cloud cluster. Flavor describes the compute resources, such as number of CPUs or vCPUs, amount of memory, and disk capacity that you order when provisioning your worker nodes. The total number of worker nodes in a cluster determines the compute capacity that is available to your apps in the cluster. For more information, see Planning your worker node setup.

Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Network Connectivity

SAP Data Intelligence allows you to connect a wide range of systems and components, as long as the required network connectivity is in place.

To be sure the connections between systems and components meet the requirements, we strongly recommend to combine planning of the SAP Data Intelligence network layout with planning the systems you want to connect. Planning both aspects jointly, will ensure that network communication is possible for the required protocols (i.e. required firewall rules, DMZ setups, and so on).

For an enhanced security, we recommend using:

  • Properly encrypted communication for all channels, in particular leveraging transport layer security (TLS).
  • A common certificate authority (CA) that can be imported as a trusted source in the various components.

For more information, see the Administration Guide for SAP Data Intelligence.

For productive setups, we recommend preparing the required SSL certificates using the preferred tools. For non-productive setups, note that the SAP Data Intelligence installer can generate self-signed certificates.

Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Storage

SAP Data Intelligence requires access to persistent storage that is attached to the OpenShift cluster. For importing, exporting, and check-pointing SAP Vora database tables, SAP Data Intelligence requires access to a persistent shared file system or an object store. In the IBM Cloud environment, IBM Cloud Object Storage is utilized for that purpose.

Prerequisites

To be able to access the required installation binaries and authorizations to install SAP Data Intelligence

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