infinispan usage

[Paul Hethmon]

On 9/7/11 12:07 PM, "Chad La Joie" <lajoie at itumi.biz> wrote:

>Perhaps thats the issue.  I've never used the multi-cast mechanism, I
>don't think.  I've always used method where you expressing indicate
>which cluster nodes there are and have it do the health check via
>explicit pings.

Yea, I've had to learn a lot about multicast and there is more that I
don't know. But it looked like the UDP multicast was the recommended
network topology, though with a small cluster, it probably doesn't matter
a lot. The one nice thing about multicast, at least for my environment, is
that I don't have to explicitly make the configuration know about each
node. Maybe the TCP option can do the same, but I haven't looked at it
closely.

What I'm trying to achieve though is the easiest way to configure a
cluster. I'm running about 60 or 70 Shib clusters right now. Not all of
them are configured for session support and hence need clustering, but
enough of them. So I should be able to get away with only having to change
the port configuration for each cluster to keep them separate. I can tell
them to use 239.0.0.1 as the mcast_addr and then change ports. So cluster
1 gets port 10000, cluster 2 gets 10100, etc.

Next step is to figure out whether replication or distribution is the
better method. Well, actually next is to get replication working at all.

thanks,

Paul