Cluster and Network servers (CIFS/FTP)

[ugolandini]

Hi,
we need to install 2.1 enterprise in cluster. I have seen the document on the wiki http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/High_Availability_Configuration_V1.4, but I can't found any information on network servers.
The configuration wil be a pretty standard one:

- hw load balancer in front of 2 tomcats
- NFS repository
- Oracle DB
- lucene indexes synced with ehcache

But what about the FTP and CIFS? Do I need to balance the protocols on the HW load balancer? I know that FTP can be hw balanced (in a sticky way, similar to http sessions), but I don't know anything about CIFS.
What is the community experience on this subject?

uL

[pjongen]

Your are right about FTP load balancing.
For CIFS please have a look at DFS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_File_System_%28Microsoft%29

[schambon]

Hi,

If I understand correctly the idea is to create a DFS root and point it to multiple Alfresco CIFS servers. Meaning one has to setup a Samba server as indirection to the Alfresco cluster, providing LB services.

Are you aware of anyone actually using this? Any proof of concept validation of the idea?

Regards
-Sylvain.

[pjongen]

"If I understand correctly the idea is to create a DFS root and point it to multiple Alfresco CIFS servers. " [PJ] Correct.

An Alfresco customer is using this in their environment.

[schambon]

Good. Thanks.

-Sylvain.