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Chapter 4
Identifying Learning Management System Hardware Assets
The Learning Management System can be installed on various types and configurations of servers. The expected
capacity of the installation is the key factor in determining the requirements for servers. The install process
described in this document assumes that the desired server or servers have been identified and configured such that
required products can be installed.
The following are some guidelines for making the best of your hardware configuration.
Allocating server responsibilities
Installation of the Learning Management System server software includes three server components: the database
server, the Learning Management Server, and the Delivery Server (DS). These server components can be installed on
a single machine for evaluation purposes, but in a production environment you should use a different machine for
each component. This guide assumes you have already installed DB2, Oracle, or SQL Server on the database server.
Installing and setting up the content server is not part of the Learning Management System installation. Consult the
documentation in your HTML authoring system for instructions about installation.
If you are upgrading from an earlier releases of LearningSpace, see the Migration Guide for instructions.
Refer to your WebSphere Application Server documentation for information on the various server configuration
options available for your Learning Management System deployment as well as for server and application
deployment guidelines.
Creating a new database or upgrading an existing database
If you are installing the Learning Management System for the first time, you’ll need to create a new database to use
with it. You can create the new database before installation (which allows you to set up the data source ahead of
time), or you can use the help of the Learning Management System scripts to create it for you (requiring you to
create or select a data source as you proceed). The instructions in this guide direct you to create the database before
installing the Learning Management System, so you can verify that the database and the corresponding data source
are configured correctly before you attempt to use them. Refer to the chapter “Installing and configuring database
servers and schema” for more information on this subject.
If you are upgrading from LearningSpace 4.11 or 5.01, you already have a database, which must be upgraded to
reflect the structure used in the Learning Management System. Perform the database upgrade during installation or
after. In all cases you need to install the Learning Management System complete with the databases. The migration
procedures will then connect to the source (LearningSpace 4 or 5) database to unload the data and load it into the
Learning Management System database.
For additional information on information migration, refer to the “Information Migration” chapter or the Learning
Management System Migration Guide. For more information on databases, refer to the chapter “Installing and
configuring database servers and schema.”
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