Sametime clustering, two left feet and no toes
Tags :Sametime
I have the pleasure of working with a large-scale
Domino deployment that also uses Sametime. Now they are quite possibly
the largest Java Connect deployment i have heard of, anywhere. Without
going into any issues they have fought and overcome (and the ones still
left), the goal here is to build a chat cluster, leaving the Meeting Server
for later.
After some brief time of just getting to
know more particulars about their Sametime environment, we got right into
it. Look for some tips as we move along the next couple days. For
starters, most of you already know how important DNS is to Sametime. It
becomes even more important as you deploy some sort of load balancer. Note
I said load balancer and not round-robin DNS entries. There
is no heartbeat or knowledge of a server being down in that approach and
ultimately, the scaling and deployment will fail miserably. So they
were well prepared with a hardware load balancer solution in place. But,
due to DNS update times, we got most of the cluster built, documents created
and servers ready and had to wait till tomorrow for a move of some DNS
names.
I will cover the document building in the
next post, my Chimichanga is here.
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On Monday, May 9th, 2005 by Chris Miller
