On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmik...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Charles Richard < > charle...@thelearningbar.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > We are currently using a product called Terracotta to do session > > fail-over/replication but are considering moving away from this product > as > > it doesn't seem to support Java 7 and Tomcat 7. > > > > What products exist out there that would help with session > > fail-over/replication? I only know of 3: > > > > - Terracotta > > - Hazelcast > > - Tomcat native session failover (is not recommended for many tomcat > nodes) > > > > I think that recommendation is just for the DeltaManager. You can use the > BackupManager with larger numbers of nodes since it's not replicating > session data to all of the nodes in the cluster. > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/cluster-manager.html > > In addition to that Redis and Memcached are two popular ways of sharing > session state. > > Dan > > In the link you sent, it mentions the following: "Downside of the BackupManager: not quite as battle tested as the delta manager. " Are you aware of companies using this for their Tomcat farms? Thanks, Charles > > > > > I want to make sure i know all options before making a decision. > > > > Thanks, > > Charles > > >
