Thanks for the response, So in this scenario : 2 apache servers (webroot : /home/web/site1) 2 tomcat servers (tomcat root : /usr/local/tomcat) Can I put the entire tomcat root on the SAN (GFS)? Java JVM on each server. Marc Grimme wrote: > Hi, > On Thursday 30 March 2006 17:26, FM wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> >> Next month, we'll have 6 servers connected to a SAN. Those servers will >> be in a web farm. And web documents will on a GFS file system. We will >> use the Redhat cluster suite. >> >> >> I'd like to install Tomcat 5 and/or 5.5 on those servers and use its >> cluster's possibilities (mod_jk for example). >> >> Some webapps need sessions. But I read that tomcat will handle that. >> >> But How do you handle webapps installation on all servers ? Do you >> deploy the war 6 times ? If not is there a tomcat way to replicate these >> webapps ? > No you don't need to, just put it on GFS. >> Can I put the webapps folder on a GFS partition ? > Dito. No problem as general answer. But it sometimes depends on the > application (what webapps you have). >> How about tomcat writing to a gfs file system ? > You can put anything on GFS without problem when using tomcat. We have > installed a 16 node cluster shared root, shared data, shared tomcat vars on > GFS running without problems. There are some specialities but these are > dependent on applications and stuff. > > Hope that helps > Regards Marc. >> Thanks ! >> >> -- >> >> Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
