Installation guide

Cluster deployment
New feature in Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Interactive Server; requires Flash
Player 6 or later.
You can deploy multiple servers behind a load balancer to distribute the application load evenly.
Flash Media Server clustering enables you to scale an application to accommodate more clients
reliably, and creates redundancy, which eliminates single points of failure. is approach is
generallybestforliveorVODstreaming,whereclientsdonotneedtocommunicatewitheach
otherfromwithinspecicapplicationinstances.ClusteringcanbeachievedusingeitherFlash
MediaStreamingServerorFlashMediaInteractiveServer.
Flash Media Server intelligent balancing
New feature in Flash Media Interactive Server; requires Flash Player 6 or later.
WiththeFlashMediaInteractiveServer,youcanintelligentlydirecttractoamultipleserver
cluster using server-side scripting. is option would typically be used for multiway communica-
tion applications that require connections be routed to a specic server. is option does require
development of rather sophisticated server-side ActionScript to manage connections.
Edge/Origin congurations
New feature in Flash Media Interactive Server; requires Flash Player 6 or later.
Inthepast,FlashMediaServerdistributedcaching/loadbalancingwasachievedbypurchasing
theEdge/Origineditions.isfunctionalityisnowbuiltintoFlashMediaInteractiveServer.
FlashMediaInteractiveServerprovidesanenterprise-readyarchitecturedesignedtosimplify
load balancing, failover, and clustering to ensure maximum availability over large regions. e
followinggureshowstheEdge/Originarchitecture.
Edge/Origin architecture
Edge Server
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Edge Server
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Origin Server
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How Edge/Origin deployments work
Edge/Originservercongurationsimproveperformancebydistributingtheserverloadamong
manycomputersonanetwork.WithanEdge/Origindeploymentstrategy,allconnection
requestsfromclientsareredirectedtoanEdgeserver.econgurationalsoletsyoumaximize
yournetworkifyouaresupportingalargelocalnetwork.ByplacingEdgeserversinremote
ocelocations,theEdgeserverswillcachemedialeslocallysoeachstreamdoesnotneedto
accesstheOrigin(host)serverforeachstream.
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