Hi Rob,
I have a similar setup to yourself and we're probably using it for the
same thing. I have a similar machine setup, though with much more RAM and
as a physical server.
One thing I'd do is just swap everything to x64.
1) See Christian's reply. Tomcat as a servlet is pretty easy to setup. Then
I just extract the war file and away I go.
2, 3) JRE works fine for me. Using 1.6 because 1.7 is still a work in
progress last I know.
4) You can run GeoServer (well, tomcat) as a service with 64bit tomcat. Per
Christian's reply.
5) No JAI I'm afraid.
6) I slightly disagree with Christian here. What I do with upgrades is
upgrade my test server. Then copy over the geoserver servlet directory to
my live machine. I shut down the live tomcat Service, delete the old
/geoserver/ directory, put the new one in there, start the Tomcat service.
Total time - about 1 or 2 minutes.
I'm using it with IIS acting as a load-balancer and reverse proxy.
Excellent tutorial here:
http://blogs.mulesoft.org/load-balancing-tomcat-7-using-iis-7-5/
Regards,
Jonathan
On 26 June 2013 16:15, Langford, Robert <robert.langf...@salford.gov.uk>wrote:
> List,****
>
> ** **
>
> I’m currently look to move from my testing environment to a live one and
> was wondering if anyone could provide any advice or tips.****
>
> ** **
>
> At present I’m using:****
>
> **· **VMware Virtual Machine****
>
> **· **2 Physical Processors (Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2680 0 @ 2.70GHz)
> ****
>
> **· **4GB RAM****
>
> **· **Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition x64****
>
> **· **Geoserver 2.3.0 running as a service installed via the
> Windows Installer through Jetty****
>
> **· **Oracle JRE 6 (32-bit)****
>
> ** **
>
> I’m planning on having my VM replicated and then installing everything
> from scratch on it (so up-to-date Geoserver, etc.). however I have a few
> questions that I’ve found conflicting or limited advice on the internet
> about:****
>
> **1. **As I don’t have an existing servlet container application
> (e.g. Tomcat), I’m presuming my options are either using the Windows
> Installer or the Windows Binary; is one preferred, what are the pros/cons?
> ****
>
> **2. **Should I be using the JRE or JDK (or indeed Server JRE); I
> know that only JRE is required but I’ve seen some people advised in the
> past to use the JDK (I think it was using the latest version)?****
>
> **3. **Which version of JRE/JDK should be used, I’ve been
> recommended to use JRE6 in the past but should I now be using JRE7; are
> there any compatibility/security issues with either?****
>
> **4. **Also I note that if you use the Windows 64-bit JRE/JDK you
> cannot run Geoserver as a Service, what are the disadvantages of this, any
> recommendations?****
>
> **5. **Again with the Windows 64-bit JRE/JDK; there doesn’t seem to
> be an option to install native JAI and JAI Image I/O extensions, would it
> be better to use the 64-bit JRE with the pure Java versions or use the
> 32-bit JRE with the native extensions?****
>
> **6. **How have people found the best way to upgrade Geoserver to
> the new point releases? Is the only way to take everything down, uninstall
> completely then reinstall Geoserver (+ extensions, etc.) every time? Any
> tips on limiting downtime?****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks for your time and apologies for the number of questions.****
>
> ** **
>
> Regards,****
>
> ** **
>
> Rob****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
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