Note
Selecting a deployment template in the wizard or manually creating more APSs doesn't replace system sizing. For more information about BI sizing:Sizing Guide
System Configuration Wizard
The wizard helps you with the basic configurations of your BI platform system, including configuring APSs according to set deployment templates. The APS configuration given by the wizard is a good starting point; however, system sizing must still be performed.
The wizard is available from the Central Management Console (CMC).
For a detailed description of the deployment template, click the deployment template link on the Capacity page of the wizard to open the DeploymentTemplates.pdf file.
Features of the System Configuration Wizard
Uses for APSs
The installation program installs one APS per host system. Depending on the features that you've installed, this APS can host many services, such as the Monitoring Service, Promotion Management Service, Multi-Dimensional Analysis Service (MDAS), Publishing Service, and others.
A generic server hosts a service responsible for processing requests from various sources.
For production or test systems, the best practice is to create more APSs, and then configures the APSs to meet your organization’s business requirements.