The easiest way to have multiple Mark Logic instances running on one machine is to run them (or all but one of them) in a virtual machine, such as VMWare.
On Mar 18, 2010, at 1:35 AM, Strawn, M. Shane wrote: > I thought it might be out of my league. We'll come up with another option. > Thanks for your comments and suggestions. ~Shane > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] on behalf of Danny Sokolsky > Sent: Wed 3/17/2010 6:52 PM > To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion > Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] RE: Two MarkLogics on one host? > > In short, it is not recommended but it is possible. A better solution is to > have 2 different computers, or if you are upgrading an application, just > (after testing and backing up) upgrade to 4.x (for example, 3.2.11 > 4.0-7 > > 4.1-5). > > Here are some of the reasons/gotchas as to why it is not recommended. You > need: > > * different port numbers on each instance for the Admin Interface (8001 by > default) and for xdqp (7999 by default) > * different data directories > * different MarkLogic installation directories > * different startup scripts > * you will have to do your own installation for the 2nd installation to > change the above things > * upgrades will be problematic and manual > * all of the cache setting defaults assume that MarkLogic has access to the > whole machine > * perhaps a few things that I have not thought of > > I definitely recommend against trying this. > > -Danny > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Strawn, M. Shane > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] Two MarkLogics on one host? > > > Quick question re: running two instances of MarkLogic on one host: > > 1) is it possible? > 2) if so what are the big issues/gotchas if any? > 3) if you're thinking "why would you want to do that?" then what's a better > solution, assuming: > > * you may want different versions of ML (v3 vs. v4) > * when the taskserver stops, the other taskserver keeps on trucking - > perhaps in v4 the taskserver is not so difficult to resurrect? > > > Thanks in advance for your comments. > > M. Shane Strawn > Software Engineer > Wolters Kluwer Health > Professional and Education Division > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general --- Ron Hitchens {mailto:[email protected]} Ronsoft Technologies (650) 766-2355 (Home Office) http://www.ronsoft.com (707) 924-3878 (fax) Bit Twiddling At Its Finest "No amount of belief establishes any fact." -Unknown _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general
