Super question, Chris! Your questions have helped tremendously to identify finer information that we need to add to enrich the Stratos docs. Ya, you can go right ahead and add this information into the docs. I think this information might fit in here [1] the best.
[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/STRATOS/4.0.0+Partitions#id-4.0.0Partitions-PartitionAlgorithms Regards, Mariangela *--* Mariangela Hills Senior Technical Writer *WSO2, Inc.*lean.enterprise.middleware. m: +94 773 500185 w: http://wso2.com <http://wso2.com/events/> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:04 PM, chris snow <chsnow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Afkham! > > This would be a useful addition to the wiki - does anyone have any > objections to me adding this? > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Afkham Azeez <afk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:29 AM, chris snow <chsnow...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> What is the difference between the algorithms round robin and one after > >> another? > > > > > > I think round-robin means, allocate the first instance in the first > > partition, 2nd instance in the 2nd partition and so on, while one after > > another means, fill the first partition first until maxed out, then go to > > the 2nd partition and so on. > > > >> > >> > >> How does the administrator choose which algorithm is the most > >> suitable? Is there advice we could give? > > > > > > In a typical Cloud bursting scenario, we would use one after another. For > > example, if an enterprise has its private cloud, all instances would be > > allocated there, and when we run out of capacity, we would go to the next > > partition on the public cloud. > > > > The round robin case could be a case for very high availability, where > > instances are spawned across multiple IaaS providers. > > > >> > >> > >> Do we support any other partitionAlgo? > >> > >> Many thanks, > >> > >> Chris > >> > >> --- > >> [1] > >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/STRATOS/4.0.0+Sample+Deployment+Policy+Definition > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Afkham Azeez > > Director of Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com, > > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ > > > > email: az...@wso2.com cell: +94 77 3320919 > > blog: http://blog.afkham.org > > twitter: http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez > > linked-in: http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez > > > > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > > > > > > -- > Check out my professional profile and connect with me on LinkedIn. > http://lnkd.in/cw5k69 >
