[mapguide-internals] mapguide in a load balanced environmnet

[Jason Birch]

Hi Riccardo,

No stupid questions :)

In addition to Zak's suggestion, you may want to consider using
unmanaged resources.  This allows your packages to remain small (faster
import/export) and the data files can be replicated differentially using
something like robocopy/rsync.  Make sure that only one of your MapGuide
servers (possibly a behind-dmz master server) has authoring capabilities
turned on in the web config.

This doesn't help if you are going to be allowing your users to update
data in the Library though.  Something that might be useful in the
future is the ability to configure MapGuide to talk to a BDB replication
manager rather than a locally installed database:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/ref/rep/in
tro.html

BTW, this kind of question should be directed to the mapguide-users
mailing list, not internals.

Thanks,
Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Riccardo Pucci
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 07:52
Subject: [mapguide-internals] mapguide in a load balanced environmnet

[snip] 

In a load balanced environment there are two (or 
more) installation of server component in different machine, what about 
the repository "library://"? It can be shared from the two server or 
there should be two different repository with the same content? In the 
case of distinct repository, what happen for example while authoring 
with studio? or restoring packages with mapadmin web application?