Macromedia breeze 5 User Guide

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Chapter 1:  Before You Begin

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Clustering Breeze allows the computers in a cluster to share session data with each other for 
effective load balancing and failover.

Planning for a Breeze Server cluster 

In a Breeze Server cluster, an identical copy of Breeze is installed on each server in the cluster. 
Each server must be able to access the Breeze database of users and groups. Because licensing 
restrictions do not allow more than one Breeze Server to access the embedded database engine, 
you must use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as the database engine in a cluster.

Make sure the required hardware applications are operating and communicating with each other 
before you start the installation. For more information, see “Installation requirements” 
on page 25.

The following figure illustrates how to create a cluster of three servers running Breeze with a load 
balancer and shared access to the SQL Server 2000 database engine and the Breeze database of 
users and groups.