CAS in Production... What kind of set up? (hardware, etc...)

[Michael J. Barton]

Duran,

At Princeton, we went the virtual machine route for our production CAS
environment.

We have two VMs running on our VMWare ESX server cluster.
The VMs are configured as:
	3GHz Intel Xeon
	1GB RAM
	1GB nic
	10MB nic (private network for cluster communication)
	Two disks (C: D:) 8GB each (just enough for the O/S and CAS)
	Windows 2003 O/S

We are running Apache to serve HTTPS and Tomcat as the java engine for CAS.
We are using the JBoss clustering as described on the CAS site for the
shared ticket store.

We front the two virtual machines with a Foundry Networks load balancer that
supports SSL.

This arrangement has proven to be very robust for us thus far and we figure
we can scale horizontally adding more virtual machines should the need
arise.

-Michael



-----Original Message-----
From: cas-bounces at tp.its.yale.edu [mailto:cas-bounces at tp.its.yale.edu] On
Behalf Of Goodyear, Duran
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 12:21 PM
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Subject: CAS in Production... What kind of set up? (hardware, etc...)

As I continue my investigation into CAS as a SSO provider... I am
curious as to how different users are configuring their use of it?

What kind of hardware do you run it on?
What kind of fault tollerance do you have?  (cluster? Redundancy?
Hot/cold spare?)

Obviously, as a critical part of the infrastructure, it needs more then
just a spare old server in the corner... But I'm of course wondering...
How much?


Thanks. 


] duran goodyear
] web developer
] administrative computing  // office of information technology
] the university of the arts
] dgoodyear at uarts.edu
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