Oracle BI 12c on its own server

For most implementations, Oracle Business Intelligence will run on its own physical or virtual server. This is often the case so that no other enterprise application suite run on the same machine, thus competing for the server's resources. Often the terms BI Server or BI Box is used when talking about the Oracle BI application server. In a high availability (HA) or failover architecture, the number of servers is increased in order to handle additional consumption of the server's resources or concurrent usage that is anticipated. Each server is then a node in a cluster of servers. Each node gets classified as an instance of Oracle BI. Typically, each Oracle BI instance will run on a physical server in production (plausibly in test or quality assurance (QA) environments as well), but usually on a virtual machine in a development or sandbox environment. This mindset for using physical machines to run enterprise applications is quickly changing and...