Thanks! So IIUC, farm provide system Load balancing, while Cluster add the ability of failover, is that right?:-)
-Rex 2009/7/9 Gianny Damour <[email protected]> > I would say the other way around. A cluster is a type of farm. > > I see a farm as a set of independent instances. I see a cluster as a set of > collaborating instances. You can deploy a non clustered application to a > farm whereby you do not have resilience in case of service failure. And you > can deploy a clustered application to a farm to increase service resiliency > if necessary. > > Thanks, > Gianny > > > On 09/07/2009, at 12:49 PM, Rex Wang wrote: > > well, Gianny, is a server farm not a type of cluster? >> >> -Rex >> >> 2009/7/8 Gianny Damour <[email protected]> >> Hi, >> >> It seems to me that farmName would be better than farmingClusterName as >> there is a clear distinction between a farm and a cluster. >> >> Thanks, >> Gianny >> >> >> On 06/07/2009, at 7:47 PM, chi runhua wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I just noticed there are 2 pairs of clusterName=CLUSTER_NAME in >> config-substitions.properties. My understanding of them is one for WADI >> clustering and another for farming. >> >> Can we using different keywords to identify them? ie. farmingClusterName >> and WADIClusterName or sth. like that. >> >> >> Jeff C >> >> >> >
