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CHAPTER 5Reporting ServicesDeployment ScenariosIN THIS Features of SSRS chapter provides an overview of Reporting Servicesdeployment scenarios (including Internet Deployment ),including SSRS hardware and software requirements, licens-ing, and security. More technical information about securityis covered in Chapter 20, Securing Report server Items. NOTEAlthough the test (staging) environment might not beas powerful as production, it is best to have a totalmatch for the most effective and realistic a SQL server Reporting Services enterprise productionenvironment, support for web farms and scale-up capabili-ties of Enterprise Edition come in handy for high-volumereporting. Web farm Deployment is flexible and enablesadministrators to add capacity to a Report server web farmas demand grows. In addition, if one of the servers in theweb farm fails, the remaining servers pick up the , a web farm provides high availability for a report-processing layer, but not the SSRS catalog (database).

2008 components: Reporting Services, SQL Server engine, T-SQL, and so on. SSRS is a fairly memory- and CPU-intensive application. It is hard to be precise with the

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