Since I've been down this road recently, I thought I would throw this out
here. Just some notes from the field, IMHO:
1.) Don't even attempt to use Cluster Cats in a production environment.
a.) Poor performance under all load conditions.
b.) Advanced documentation or reference? What? Where?
c.) Poor support from Allaire - they don't even reccomend using it.
We were going to try to run it for a new client but load testing in our
staging environment completely destroyed any benefits we might have
obtained. If you really need this functionality, invest in a hardware
solution - yeah they're expensive, I know - but they are DEFINATELY worth
it.
Don't even get me started on Advanced Security and Spectra....
whooooooeeeee!!!!!
Regards,
Ryan Hill, MCSE
Director, Systems Integration
Market Matrix, Inc. - http://www.marketmatrix.com
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Subject: RE: benefits of Enterprise without ClusterCats?
> I'm moving to a clustered server using NT/IIS/SQL, but I plan on using
> Local Director, and NOT ClusterCats. In this case, is there
> any benefit to running Enterprise over Professional?
>
> I'm assume that the following features of Enterprise are tied to using
> ClusterCats, but I couldn't really tell:
>
> * Service-Level Failover
> * Dynamic Load Balancing
> * Automatic Server Failover
You're correct. All of those features are provided by ClusterCats. You may
find it useful to use ClusterCats in conjunction with LocalDirector, though.
In addition, Enterprise provides native database drivers - worth it if
you're using Oracle - and the Advanced Security engine, which is powerful
(although very obtuse) and required for Spectra.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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