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Deployment Environments
Because of the availability and failover advantages of using a cluster, we recommend that Active Cluster be used in your QA/staging and production environments. Follow these guidelines:
Deploy at least two clusters – one for QA/staging and one for production.
Note: Modifying the same/dependent artifacts on different servers in a single cluster may cause conflicts. So it is recommended to deploy separate clusters for development and production.
Enterprise deployments should consider deploying multiple clusters.
For production nodes, use 4+ CPU cores. These are minimum requirements. The actual configurations depend on such factors as the number of expected requests, number of clients, level of availability required, and so on.
Since Version Control for TDV does not support clusters, it is recommended to use a single DEV instance.