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Multiple Portal servers - Database configuration
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| Hi,
We are looking at have a set of load-balanced Portal servers (that are not clustered). I.e. load balanced by IHS. The one issue we are currently looking at is how to configure the Portal servers with an Oracle database.
Basically from all the documentation I have seen where you have multiple Portal servers, you configure each Portal server to use the same database and database components. For example, Node 1 and Node 2 share the same WPS and WMM databases, etc.
I am currently looking for information on how to separate this a bit better. I.e. is it possible for each Portal server to have it's own Database (Database schema) but to share a common database schema for user information (WMM).
The advantages would be when applying fix packs, etc where you do not can shutdown down one server to deploy the fixpack (that may affect the Portal config datbase).
Does any one have any thoughts? Or documentation / information relating to the above?
Much appreciated.
thanks,
Sam
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| Yes you can do what you are looking to do. Simply install portal on the 2 nodes and configure them with separate databases. Then using the WAS plug-in, you can hit both servers and maintain affinity for user sessions. The drawbacks of doing this are yo
u cannot allow users to customize their pages (because user customizations will not appear on second portal server) and if you have a server outage... all users re-routed to the second node will lose their session. WMM does not need to be shared by both
servers? it is an independent component. If you do not allow customizations and don't mind lost user session if you take an outage then this is perfectly fine? actually recommended for the reasons you site. V6 Portal will probably include better support
for multiple cell architecture and allowing session persistence and shared customizations.
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