Generally your nodes are on different hosts, in which case you would not get port
conflicts.
Possibly, you could have multiple IP addresses and pass in the -b option to the run
script specifying a different ip for each host, but depending on the actual network
setup, the two instances may not
Yes you make very good points. When I started to try clustering my servers I thought
running a cluster on one machine would be easier for testing/learning, but now I know
otherwise. Now that I am trying the clustering with two machines there are no more
port issues (though unfortunately there
You can run two instances of JBoss with the all configuration on a single machine
with minimal config changes. JBoss provides the ServiceBindingManager facility to run
multiple instances on the same box.
http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossHA
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