Hi Tiffany, We have done lots of implementations involving clustered OpenText MS as well as Open Text Delivery Server. The way you are suggesting is the best possible way to go, where you add additional cms servers pointing to the same IoAdministration and IoApplication Databases as your existing single installation. Though obvious, things to be on look out for: 1) Your database server is different from your existing CMS server instance, to avoid this content server being overloaded. 2) You should have good network connection between your to be clustered CMS servers as well as to the Database server 3) The RedDot Content server clocks should be synchronized and not have more than 2 minute deviation. 4) The most important of all is that you need to install the same CMS server build that you currently have. All the Content servers in the cluster must have the same build number. 5) The paths to the asset folders should be to UNC or mapped drive or shared folder reachable from all the content servers.
Once working, then you can configure in your server manager the asynchronous processes and select which server will handle publication. After that, you can then have a load balancer in front of your editing cms servers and do load balancing among the editing servers and distribute the load across cms servers. Hope this helps, Thanks, Prasanth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prasanth Nittala Direct 213.814.4163 | Cell 213.399.5828 | www.oshyn.com On Feb 24, 9:10 am, Tiffany <[email protected]> wrote: > We are planning to move from a single server implementation, where > one > server is used for editing and publishing, to a clustered > implementation, where the editor and publisher are separate. > > Our advice from Open Text has been to install the new servers > pointing > to the production database. It is our understanding that this will > not > affect the single server installation. We are then planning to test > the > new servers and switch the DNS from the single server to the new > editing > server. > > Does anyone else have experience with a similar installation? We'd > like > to know if this is the easiest and best way to switch to a clustered > environment with minimal downtime, if any. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en.
