[FX.php List] Amazon Elastic Load Balancing implementation?

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Thanks Andrew,

Some additional info after talking with the client...

They already have two FMS licences.  They would add a third to be 
able to have three complete servers (assume single machine deployment 
for this discussion) available to be put online.  The purpose is NOT 
pay for cloud servers when they are not needed.

Apparently, the system is set up as separate servers (each with lic 
number), and then the ELB automatically spins up the extra server(s) 
as needed.

With this in mind, now I don't see a reason why it *wouldn't* 
work....other then the need to get the new server sync'ed up before 
being able to go online.

Jonathan




At 11:23 PM +0000 6/4/12, Andrew Denman wrote:
>Jonathan,
>
>I don't think it is possible to provision FileMaker assets this way 
>because, as I understand it, the WPE to FileMaker relationship is 
>1:1. You can't have multiple FileMaker servers use one WPE nor one 
>FileMaker server using multiple WPEs.
>
>You could load balance the web server if you separate FileMaker and 
>the WPE from the public web server (2/3 server setup: Web > 
>FileMaker/WPE or Web > WPE > FileMaker).
>
>Andrew Denman
>
>
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>Schwartz
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>
>Hi Folks,
>
>I just wanted to check with the experts before replying back to a 
>client about their inquiry.
>
>A client is running  a couple of FMS 12 servers at Amazon Web 
>Services (AWS) for Web Publishing. To accommodate spikes in web 
>publishing demands, a suggestion has been made to employ Amazon 
>Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) to dynamically adjust the number of 
>server instances that are available to provide web services.  In 
>theory, this would spawn additional clones of a FileMaker Web 
>Publishing environment on an as-needed basis.
>
>While this might work in a pure html environment or even a MySQL 
>environment, I don't see how this would work in a FileMaker Server 
>environment.  At the very least, it would seem to violate FMS 
>licensing.
>
>I could not find any discussions on the net.  Any advise from this group?
>
>Thanks
>
>Jonathan
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