topic Re: Server Clustering in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/server-clustering/m-p/577721#M22250 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">I'm curious how many people out there have a clustered ArcGIS Server?...and if so, how many machines do you have clustered and do you use certain machines for specific tasks?<BR /><BR />Thanks!</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We are clustering right now.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>1 environment (on our internal network) is ArcGIS Server 10.1 SP1.&nbsp; There are 3 clusters in the environment with 4 hosts.&nbsp; the 'default' cluster is empty (just has not been deleted since we could not delete it at 10.1 SP0... not sure if we can at 10.1 SP1 since I have not tried yet).&nbsp; The second cluster is built with 2 hosts called 'mapping' which we deploy our mapping services there.&nbsp; The 3rd cluster is called 'geoprocessing' and runs all the system utilities and geoprocessing services which some take a while to run.&nbsp; This cluster also has 2 hosts.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We are starting to build more services though, and will most likely build 2 more clusters and move 1 host from the current clusters into the new clusters to isolate services from eachother.&nbsp; The use on these services are low so we are really overkill right now with 2 hosts in each cluster.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We are also working towards another </SPAN><A href="http://www.landscape.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services">environment </A><SPAN> (currently at 10.0 SP4 and needs to be upgraded to 10.1 or 10.2 or 10.2.1) for a much larger project that has hundreds of services (we are getting close to 1000 services).&nbsp; Esri has 'unofficially' indicated that some clients have experienced issues when there are more than 300 services in a site.&nbsp; We are still going to deploy all our services in 1 site, but isolate those to 4 separate 'mapping' clusters, each with 1 host.&nbsp; If we experience problems, then we will break each of those clusters into multiple sites but would like to avoid that so that they are all accessible from 1 rest endpoint (url).&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>clear as mud?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Feb 2014 22:01:23 GMT PF1 2014-02-05T22:01:23Z Server Clustering https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/server-clustering/m-p/577720#M22249 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm curious how many people out there have a clustered ArcGIS Server?...and if so, how many machines do you have clustered and do you use certain machines for specific tasks?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:30:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/server-clustering/m-p/577720#M22249 mpboyle 2014-01-31T12:30:26Z Re: Server Clustering https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/server-clustering/m-p/577721#M22250 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">I'm curious how many people out there have a clustered ArcGIS Server?...and if so, how many machines do you have clustered and do you use certain machines for specific tasks?<BR /><BR />Thanks!</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We are clustering right now.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>1 environment (on our internal network) is ArcGIS Server 10.1 SP1.&nbsp; There are 3 clusters in the environment with 4 hosts.&nbsp; the 'default' cluster is empty (just has not been deleted since we could not delete it at 10.1 SP0... not sure if we can at 10.1 SP1 since I have not tried yet).&nbsp; The second cluster is built with 2 hosts called 'mapping' which we deploy our mapping services there.&nbsp; The 3rd cluster is called 'geoprocessing' and runs all the system utilities and geoprocessing services which some take a while to run.&nbsp; This cluster also has 2 hosts.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We are starting to build more services though, and will most likely build 2 more clusters and move 1 host from the current clusters into the new clusters to isolate services from eachother.&nbsp; The use on these services are low so we are really overkill right now with 2 hosts in each cluster.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We are also working towards another </SPAN><A href="http://www.landscape.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services">environment </A><SPAN> (currently at 10.0 SP4 and needs to be upgraded to 10.1 or 10.2 or 10.2.1) for a much larger project that has hundreds of services (we are getting close to 1000 services).&nbsp; Esri has 'unofficially' indicated that some clients have experienced issues when there are more than 300 services in a site.&nbsp; We are still going to deploy all our services in 1 site, but isolate those to 4 separate 'mapping' clusters, each with 1 host.&nbsp; If we experience problems, then we will break each of those clusters into multiple sites but would like to avoid that so that they are all accessible from 1 rest endpoint (url).&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>clear as mud?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Feb 2014 22:01:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/server-clustering/m-p/577721#M22250 PF1 2014-02-05T22:01:23Z