Installation guide

Appendix B: Clustering Breeze Live
If your Macromedia Breeze license permits, you can install Breeze Live on two or more computers and
then cluster the computers to provide load balancing and failover for Breeze Live.
This appendix explains how to create a Breeze Live cluster and verify that the cluster functions successfully.
It contains the following main sections:
• “Setting up a Breeze Live cluster” on page 29
• “Verifying failover for Breeze Live” on page 30
Setting up a Breeze Live cluster
When you create a Breeze Live cluster, Breeze Live on each computer must communicate with the Breeze
Presentation platform and with a file server that stores the files created by each Breeze Live installation.
The Breeze Presentation platform also needs access to the Breeze Live files on the file server. The following
figure illustrates a cluster with Breeze Live on three computers.
Note: If you are using Breeze Live stand-alone configuration, all references to the Breeze Presentation platform in
this appendix also apply to the Breeze application server.
To set up a Breeze Live cluster for load balancing and failover:
1 Install Breeze Live on each computer that will be in the cluster.
2 Create a user account on the domain that contains the Breeze Live and Breeze Presentation platform
computers, and give the user account administrative privileges to all the Breeze Live and
Presentation platform computers.
This is the Breeze user account. Each Breeze Live in the cluster and the Breeze Presentation
platform will use this account to run as services under the Windows operating system.
3 On a file server, create a folder for Breeze, and immediately below the Breeze folder, create a
subfolder for the Breeze Live files that will be shared.
For example, the following is a possible path to the shared files: \\fileserver1\breeze\content. In this
appendix, the examples assume that the Breeze folder is named “breeze” and that the folder for
shared files created by Breeze Live is named“content.” In practice, you can choose other names for
the folders.
Breeze database
Breeze
Live
Breeze Presentation platform
Breeze
Live
Breeze
Live
File
Server