Windows system configuration cluster

This article describes how to configure clusters on Windows systems.

2.1 Basic Environment Preparation

Before deploying a cluster, make sure that you have prepared the environment required for cluster engineering. Cluster Environment Preparation

Note: WebLogic Single Cluster and WebLogic Dual Cluster are WebLogic's own clusters, not the Fanruan clustering solution, and are not recommended.

2.2 Deploying FineBI Projects

In each cluster node server, deploy the FineBI project to the container.

The deployment containers are described in the following table.

2.3 Configuring an external database

Select the project on a node as the master node project and configure the external database.

The types and versions of external databases supported are shown in the following table.

2.4  Install and configure cluster components

2.4.1 Install the profile server and start

When file servers are not enabled, inter-node synchronization is used by default to ensure file consistency in the cluster, although there may be synchronization delays between nodes when there are network communication problems between them.

For Windows clusters, manual modification of files on a node cannot be synchronized to other nodes in time, so it is recommended to avoid direct manipulation of node files by remote design.

To avoid such problems, it is recommended to use a file server: Configure the FTP service for Windows systems

Note: 「Automatic synchronization between nodes」 is not applicable to multiple nodes, otherwise it will affect the use due to the communication problem between nodes, and it is only used when there are two nodes, and 「File Server」 is required when there are more than two nodes.

2.4.2 Installing and Configuring the Stateful Server and Starting it Up

Redis clusters can ensure high availability of the state server compared to standalone mode, but they require certain server resources and increase the cost of operation and maintenance, so please choose your own.

Redis Standalone: Installing and Configuring Standalone Redis on Windows Systems

Redis clusters: Fanruan has not officially tested the deployment of Redis clusters on Windows systems yet.

2.4.3 Install and configure load balancing and start

Load balancing is an indispensable part of the cluster solution and is independent of the project. If you have the ability of operation and maintenance, you can choose the appropriate hardware and software load balancing, currently there are customers using load balancing including treafik, Nginx, F5, AWS ELB, NetScaler, FanruanSoft's basic solution is based on treafik, for non-treafik load balancing, you must operate their own configuration, refer to the document:Load Balancing Configuration Guide

[Recommended] Windows system installation and configuration of Treafik

Nginx: Installing and Configuring Nginx for Windows

Note: Nginx as a load balancer has good concurrency performance on Linux systems and takes up very little memory. However, it does not support high concurrency on Windows systems, so you need to consider concurrency when choosing Nginx as a load balancer on Windows systems. If the concurrency requirement is less than 300 and the cluster is deployed for hot standby purposes only, you can use Nginx as a load balancer, but if the concurrency requirement is more than 300, it is not recommended to use Nginx and you should switch to another load balancer.

2.5 Platform Configuration Cluster

Master node project reference Platform configuration cluster Documentation to configure the cluster. When the first node appears, copy the project package (webroot) of the first node under other servers, then start these servers, and the new node will be added to the node management.

Note: For cluster projects registered with local machine information authentication, you need to re-register the cluster project after adding nodes.

3.1 Changing the FTP path

Description

After the cluster project is built, you need to change the FTP file server path due to lack of disk space.

Solution

1) Copy all the files under the original path to the new directory and assign permissions to the new folder. For details, please refer to: Configuring FTP on Linux system installation, Configuring FTP service on Windows system

2) Modify the path of the file server on the platform and save it.

3) Reboot each node of the cluster. See Section 3.7 of the Configuring the Cluster documentation for notes on rebooting the cluster project.