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Re: Session replication in GlassFish 3.1 - Amazon EC2 Instances

From: Dominik Dorn <dominik.dorn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:10:06 +0200

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Shreedhar Ganapathy
<shreedhar.ganapathy_at_oracle.com> wrote:
>  Thanks for trying this out and getting back to us with questions.
> I believe on EC2, multicast is not supported and one of our requirements in
> 3.1 for runtime clustering is the support for multicast messaging. Without
> this, the default session replication mechanism and runtime clustering
> discovery and health monitoring protocols will not work.

You could setup a VPN between your EC2 nodes, that way multicast should work.
You can also do that through ssh alone (no need for openvpn etc.).

just search for SSH VPN, there are some good tutorials.


All the best,
dominik
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