Planning for a CP4BA multi-pattern production deployment

Before you install any IBM Cloud Pak® for Business Automation capability, it is important to understand what you need, what options you have, the entitlement of your license, and how you can measure the usage of your deployments.

The following progress bar shows you where you are in the installation process.

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As a Cloud Pak for Business Automation administrator, you need to produce a deployment plan on private/hybrid/public cloud to support your line of business (LoB) needs. You must work with other IT administrators (Enterprise Cloud Admin, DBA Admin, Security Admin, LDAP Admin) to gather information on the corporate IT infrastructure. Information such as databases, LDAP, security, Kafka, and storage classes are paramount to create a picture of your deployment architecture. All of this data is needed to properly configure the Cloud Pak for Business Automation capabilities.

Important: Usage metrics help you to ensure that the sum of all CPU limits do not exceed the Virtual Processing Cores (VPC) entitlements on all virtual servers. The Cloud Platform foundational License Service is installed with your deployment and can be used to gather the data, or you can install the IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT). You can also compare your usage with your license entitlements by asking for a license calculator (Excel worksheet) from your IBM representative. For more information, see Managing your license entitlements.