Using Multiple Server Instances

When you install Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition using the multiserver configuration, you can use the ColdFusion MX Administrator to create multiple server instances. Deploying ColdFusion MX on multiple server instances lets you isolate individual applications and leverage clustering functionality.

Management of multiple server instances has changed significantly in ColdFusion MX 7:

ColdFusion MX Use a J2EE deployment, along with J2EE application server features to deploy the ColdFusion MX application on multiple instances of the J2EE application server.

ColdFusion MX 7 Use the ColdFusion MX Administrator in the multiserver configuration to create Macromedia JRun server instances and to automatically deploy the ColdFusion MX application on those instances. Additionally, you can combine the Administrator-driven server instance creation with the ColdFusion MX Administrator J2EE Archive feature to deploy a ColdFusion MX application that contains all of your application’s CFM files (including CFCs and CFRs), settings (including data source definitions), and the ColdFusion web application. For more information on J2EE Archive, see Packaging applications in J2EE archive files.

Note: Although the concepts and procedures explained in the ColdFusion MX documentation still apply, ColdFusion MX 7 incorporates multiple instance and cluster creation into the ColdFusion MX Administrator.

Contents

About multiple server instances

Defining additional server instances

Enabling application isolation

Enabling clustering for load balancing and failover

Defining remote server instances to the ColdFusion MX Administrator