Hi,

We are looking at have a set of load-balanced Portal servers (that are not c
lustered). 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 Por
tal servers, you configure each Portal server to use the same database and d
atabase components. For example, Node 1 and Node 2 share the same WPS and WM
M 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 (Datab
ase 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 sh
utdown down one server to deploy the fixpack (that may affect the Portal con
fig datbase).

Does any one have any thoughts? Or documentation / information relating to t
he 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 n
odes and configure them with separate databases.  Then using the WAS plug-in
, you can hit both servers and maintain affinity for user sessions.  The dra
wbacks of doing this are yo
u cannot allow users to customize their pages (because user customizations w
ill not appear on second portal server) and if you have a server outage... a
ll 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 perfect
ly fine? actually recommended for the reasons you site.  V6 Portal will prob
ably include better support
for multiple cell architecture and allowing session persistence and shared c
ustomizations.

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