Re: cf8 enterprise failover

2008-09-01 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Matthew Williams wrote: > The only complaint I've had for our public facing servers in > the last few months is an issue with our front end balancer. If a > CFHTTP request gets routed back to the same server making the request, > the load balancer fails the request. This only applies to non-CF

Re: cf8 enterprise failover

2008-08-30 Thread Brad Wood
"Richard Steele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 8:11 AM Subject: Re: cf8 enterprise failover > Great, thanks. How much memory is required or recommended for each > instance? I'm on a Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with 4 GB o

Re: cf8 enterprise failover

2008-08-30 Thread Matthew Williams
Brad Wood wrote: > How do you define "working"? When you can't place CFCs or XML objects in > your session scope without ugly erros, I don't call that working. > Serialization of complex objects has plauged session replication for a > while. CF8 made CFCs serializable and that was very good, b

Re: cf8 enterprise failover

2008-08-30 Thread Matthew Williams
By default CF uses 512 Megs + up to 128 Megs of memory per instance. You can configure that to be higher, though I wouldn't go any lower. I'd go with a maximum of two instances with that type of system in a production environment. This way, you could allocate about 1.2 gigs per instance and

Re: cf8 enterprise failover

2008-08-30 Thread Richard Steele
Great, thanks. How much memory is required or recommended for each instance? I'm on a Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with 4 GB of memory (its max). How many instances would be recommended for that amount of memory? >Yes. You add one or more instances to one or more servers. Then you defi

Re: cf8 enterprise failover

2008-08-29 Thread Brad Wood
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Uh, what? Session replication has been working for me starting with MX > 6.1 and continues to work fine now that we've moved to CF8. How do you define "working"? When you can't place CFCs or XML objects in your sessi

Re: cf8 enterprise failover

2008-08-29 Thread Matthew Williams
Uh, what? Session replication has been working for me starting with MX 6.1 and continues to work fine now that we've moved to CF8. I've also not had an issue with cfchart since the information replicates within the cluster. And, as an added bonus, the latest JRun updater for CF8 brings us pa

Re: cf8 enterprise failover

2008-08-29 Thread Brad Wood
ent: Friday, August 29, 2008 9:54 PM Subject: Re: cf8 enterprise failover > Ah, ok. So one defines a cluster for an application within the cf8 > enterprise server and then if an instance within the cluster hangs, then > traffic is redirected? Am I understanding that right? And that wor

Re: cf8 enterprise failover

2008-08-29 Thread Richard Steele
You can weigh an instance, but you cannot control the balancing based off >server load, users, etc. > >~Brad > >> Does cf8 enterprise failover work well? IOW, if an instance hangs does it >> spawn a new instance seamlessly? >> Thank in advance. >> >> ~

Re: cf8 enterprise failover

2008-08-29 Thread Brad Wood
ing is not necessarily application aware. You can weigh an instance, but you cannot control the balancing based off server load, users, etc. ~Brad - Original Message - From: "Richard Steele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 9:45

cf8 enterprise failover

2008-08-29 Thread Richard Steele
Does cf8 enterprise failover work well? IOW, if an instance hangs does it spawn a new instance seamlessly? Thank in advance. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free