BO 4.0 production deployment recommendations

Hi All,
We would like to understand what would be the good approach to segregate the different services into different physical machine.
When we do the sizing using quicksizer, the output is in SAPS and Memory size for four different tiers.
a) Web App Server
b) Inteligence Tier
c) Intelligence DB Tier
d) Processing Tier
Coming to the questions,
1) The processing tier is expected to consume lots of memory so it is recommended to be put on it's own physical server.
2) Combining the processing server with Intelligence tier - Will this impact the performance of the normal activities like navigating and scheduling in case of processing server getting overloaded?
3) Merging Web App Server and Intelligence services - Will this have any impact in performance of the overall user experience?
4) Do we need to have a separate server for the repository database? Can it not be co-hosted with the other Oracle production databases. What are the things that we need to consider to co-host the database?
5) Usage of VM servers for all these tiers - Any issues in using virtual servers to host all these different services?
In short, we need to be able to bring down the number of servers without compromising the performance and usability. We are looking at deploying BO 4.0 on 100 concurrent user license with all the client tools such as Crystal, WebI, Analysis OLAP, Dashboard and Explorer.
6) Am thinking of proposing one virtual server for (web apps + intelligence) and another for processing server. And recommend to co-host the database repository. The processing server to have 32 GB RAM on 8 or 16 core machine. The web + intelligence services to be hosted on a 8 core 16 GB RAM machine.
7) The processing server - is it good to split them to two different physical server so that we can host different client related services on the different physical server?
I know that I am asking too many questions but I do not find deployment options and recommendations anywhere.
Thanks & Regards,
Mohanraj

Have you looked at the Business Intelligence Platform Planning Guide and Admin guide ?
They have information that will allow you to answer your questions.
This sort of questions fall under what SAP Services do and is almost impossible to answer without intimate knowledge of your requirements, business neeeds and resources available....
In general :
1) The processing tier is expected to consume lots of memory so it is recommended to be put on it's own physical server.
Yes
2) Combining the processing server with Intelligence tier - Will this impact the performance of the normal activities like navigating and scheduling in case of processing server getting overloaded?
It might, depends on resources available to it.
3) Merging Web App Server and Intelligence services - Will this have any impact in performance of the overall user experience?
Usualy yes, again - depends on resources available, the bottleneck will be in disk and network I/O
4) Do we need to have a separate server for the repository database? Can it not be co-hosted with the other Oracle production databases. What are the things that we need to consider to co-host the database?
Recemended way is to have repository DB separare, iside your production Oracle DB's.
5) Usage of VM servers for all these tiers - Any issues in using virtual servers to host all these different services?
Possible, if you fully understand limitations and benefits of VM environments.
6) Am thinking of proposing one virtual server for (web apps + intelligence) and another for processing server. And recommend to co-host the database repository. The processing server to have 32 GB RAM on 8 or 16 core machine. The web + intelligence services to be hosted on a 8 core 16 GB RAM machine.
co-hosting repo DB is bad idea, the rest migth work.
better to have web tier, intelligence and processing separate...
7) The processing server - is it good to split them to two different physical server so that we can host different client related services on the different physical server?
Yes, usualy it is a good idea...

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