A site in Deployment Manager is an instance of TDV. By adding sites, you are defining the instances of TDV that you want to manage with Deployment Manager. For example, you might have a TDV site where you develop TDV resources, a TDV site where you test those resources, and a TDV site that is the target production environment where the resources are accessed by your client applications.

While Deployment Manager can manage deployment for many TDV sites, it typically is run from a single TDV instance that is a development or test instance and not a production instance where performance might be impacted.

You must define both a source site and target site. Your target site does not need to be running at the time of its definition. This can be handy if it’s not accessible or available. However, the target site needs to be running when accessing resources (during mapping, for example) or when executing a deployment plan via the PLANS user interface Execute Plan command.

Note: You can export a plan and then execute it on the offline site from a command line as described in Exporting a Deployment Plan and Importing and Executing a Deployment Plan.

Topics that describe working with sites include: