We are currently expanding our infrastructure to have a production environment in New York and another in California. Based on other discussions here, I have found some additional information on the ideal production vCO setup but still have a few questions.
The setup we are looking at is a vCenter & vCO in California and a separate vCenter & vCO in New York (all are version 5.5.0). Based on other threads, it is recommended to use the multi-node plug-in here to be able to manage both vCO environments from a common place. Based on that, here are my questions:
- What is benefit of doing a vCO cluster in each location? Is it for failover in active/passive and load balancing in an active/active?
- The maximum concurrent running workflows for vCO is 300. If we cluster our vCO, will this increase that number?
- Multi-Node Plugin
- Would it make sense (or is it even possible) to cluster the multi-node vCO server?
- Assuming the multi-node clustering is possible, would it be too complex having a cluster of multi-node vCO servers managing 2 separate clusters of vCO?
- If we make web service calls to launch workflows, would we send the web service request to the multi-node plugin server or the individual vCO server?
Thanks,
Dan