Installation Overview

Platform Symphony Developer Edition (Symphony DE) software enables you to develop client and service applications suitable for deployment to a Platform Symphony production cluster.

New installation

This guide describes installation of the software on a single host.

If you have Symphony DE 4.1 or earlier

You cannot directly upgrade to Symphony DE 5.0 from an earlier version of Symphony DE, but you can install multiple versions of the software on the same host. This guide describes installation of multiple versions (5.0 and previous) and how to use them.

It is possible to operate Symphony DE 5.0 and an older version of Symphony DE independently from the same host. If you are installing Symphony DE 5.0 on the same host as the older version, make a note of the following:

  • Default port numbers are the same for both 5.0 and older versions, but this causes a conflict and only one version of Symphony DE can start up. If you need to run both versions in parallel, change the port numbers manually (change either the older or newer version of Symphony DE).

  • If you choose to do the custom installation, make sure you specify a different installation directory.

  • The Windows global environment is set to the Symphony DE 5.0 environment after you install 5.0. This means that your existing applications will use DE 5.0 environment to submit workload instead of the older version. Symphony DE 5.0 and the older version of Symphony DE have separate command prompts to help you point to the corresponding environment. You can also set your global environment to point to any Symphony DE version, see Setting Your Global Environment for more details.