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Clustering Breeze Presentation Platforms
If your Macromedia Breeze license permits, you can install the Breeze Presentation platform on
two or more computers and then cluster the Breeze Presentation platforms to provide load
balancing and failover.
Clustering Breeze Presentation platforms has the following advantages:
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You can effectively use third-party hardware or software to provide load balancing and failover
for HTTP requests. Clustering Breeze Presentation platforms allows them to share session
data with each other so that load balancing and failover through third-party solutions can
be effective.
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Clustered Breeze Presentation platforms provide their own load balancing for requests to
create Breeze Flash presentations from Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
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All Breeze Presentation platforms in a cluster have copies of the same content. If one computer
in a cluster fails, the Breeze Presentation platform on another computer in the cluster can take
over and supply the same content.
Note:
If you are using Breeze Live as a stand-alone product, all references to the Breeze
Presentation platform in this white paper apply also to the Breeze application server.
This white paper explains how to cluster Breeze Presentation platforms and verify that the cluster
functions successfully. The following topics are discussed:
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“Setting up a cluster of Breeze Presentation platforms”
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“Verifying failover for HTTP requests” on page 7
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“Verifying replication of content across the cluster” on page 8