You can test this scenario of hopping from one instance to another
without a loadbalancer, only when the cluster instances are on same
machine. This is useful for testing purposes. For cross machine session
failover testing you need to front the instances with a loadbalancer as
Tom points out.
hth
Shreedhar
On 4/11/11 7:08 AM, Tom Mueller wrote:
> When attempting to view the images, I'm getting a URL validation error.
>
> Are you accessing your cluster using a load balancer? If you are using
> IP addresses to access your server, then you will not see the session
> preserved across instances because of the way cookies are handled in
> the browser. A load balancer is needed in front of the server to make
> this work properly for HA access to an application.
>
> Tom