Systems Design

Different Unwired Platform deployment architectures support the different stages of the development life cycle, by mapping the logical architecture of Unwired Platform components to a physical computing environment, according to the requirements specified for each.

Most customers needs are met by using one of these environment types: single node environments (sometimes known as trial environments), shared development and test environments, simple redundancy environment, full-scale (or optimal) redundancy environments, and even multitenant environments (for hostability).

However, there are common characteristics to all of them. These characteristics most often include:

A discrete network architecture that separates production, test, and development environments.
The isolation of Internet-facing systems from internal systems.
The configuration of a new or an existing authentication and identity management solution for internal and remote proof-of-identity and access control.
An effective and efficient redundancy plan — except in the case of single node installations.

Environment Options
Different Unwired Platform environments are designed to support different life cycle stages and whether you are hosting that environment specifically for your enterprise or to host multiple tenants.
Clustered Environments
Clustering creates redundant Unwired Platform components on your network to provide a highly scalable and available system architecture.
Single-Node Environment
A single-node installation does not make use of node or cluster redundancy. In trial or personal development scenarios, you may want to operate Unwired Platform on a single host.
Multitenant Environments
Multitenancy allows platform administrators to deploy a single production environment to service multiple client organizations (known as tenants). Multitenancy uses domains, which allow a tenant's administrators to manage Unwired Platform entities within the cluster partition, provided that administration users possess the proper domain administration privileges.