Gary, We're about to go down the NAS route for our clusters (one of them a FarCry cluster in development) as well. Can you tell me whether you use drive letters or UNC paths for your NAS? Our network guys tell me this makes a big diference configuration and management wise for them. From my perspective, I know CF can handle either, but from experience I also know that working with UNC paths in ColdFusion can sometimes be "tricky".
-Rob >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> We don't store our web content on each server. The cluster has a central storage unit and we upload files/images to that server. The webserver roots then all point at the shared disk resource. In our case the central storage unit is currently a NAS (Network Attached Storage) unit. We also have a (much larger) SAN (Storage Area Network) which we may end up using in the future. These types of units provide very good redunancy through multiple RAID architecture and also make it very easy to expand disk in a Live environment as well as being able to reduce the storage requirement for clustered servers. Because of this, we have no problems running FarCry in a Cluster (but NOTE: our load balancing is done by hardware - not using any software clustering - e.g. ClusterCats). In addition, our Load Balancer (from Array Networks) is "smart" in that it will ensure a session remains on the same server for the duration of a session (so that we dont have issues of sharing session across servers). Gary Menzel Web Development Manager IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 PH: 07 333 44 828 FX: 07 3834 0828 --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
