Essbase instances

If we have essbase 1 and essbase 2 in same environment.
Essbase 1 will be for Essbase Only applications, where in Essbase2 will
deploy planning apps on it.Essbase 2 box will also have Planning installed.
Both essbase servers will share partitions.
Do you agree to this architecture? will it improve performance for our client?
What pros and cons you see with this model?
Edited by: 914360 on Oct 22, 2012 6:26 PM

914360 wrote:
If we have essbase 1 and essbase 2 in same environment.
Essbase 1 will be for Essbase Only applications, where in Essbase2 will
deploy planning apps on it.Essbase 2 box will also have Planning installed.
Both essbase servers will share partitions.
Do you agree to this architecture? will it improve performance for our client?
What pros and cons you see with this model?
Edited by: 914360 on Oct 22, 2012 6:26 PMDon't take it the wrong way but if you are deploying this for a client shouldnt you be the experts and not asking the question on a forum?
Sorry which company do you work for?
All your previous questions looked like exam questions and you didn't take the time to even bother to mark them helpful, correct, answered.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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