we only hear people say "application server clustering". If we have several application servers participated in the clustering, do they need to be installed on different physical machine ?
Stan James
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We have three machines (actually LPARs on big IBM boxes) with two instances of WebSphere and our application on each LPAR. We consider it a cluster of six application servers. Almost all the issues you have with separate machines - sharing state, load balancing, etc - are the same with separate JVMs on the same machine. I guess that would mean the "virtual" machine is pretty "realistic."
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Clustering can be achieved through vertical scaling or horizontal scaling. Read this article.
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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