ATA02 Designing a Blue Prism (Version 6.0) Environment Questions and Answers

An underlying disk subsystem which hosts many virtual devices can be a performance bottleneck.

Often shared hardware is over-allocated resulting in less than expected available capacity (e.g. 2 vCPUs may equate to 0.1 physical cores)

It is important to validate the actual performance of the Runtime Resources when operating on shared hardware

The performance of the Runtime Resource can impact processing throughput

All of the above

Type 1 hypervisors, such as VMWare Vsphere and Citrix XenServer should be used for production grade deployments of Blue Prism.

Type 2 hypervisors, such as Oracle Virtualbox and Vmware Workstation may be used for production grade deployments of Blue Prism.

All desktop virtualization strategies are suitable for deployment of Runtime Resources.

Consideration should be given to the system resource requirements of the automated applications, on top of the Blue Prism minimum specifications.

The Blue Prism minimum specifications should be sufficient for all use cases.

Whether the different environments will be accessing the same processes

Whether there are any security related reasons to segregate services on to separate devices

Whether it is acceptable for product updates to be applied to all environments simultaneously

It is not possible to host multiple Application Server services on a single device