Appeon PowerServer provides its own tools and plug-ins to configure a PowerServer cluster and implement the load balancing and failover functionalities. A PowerServer cluster is essentially a group of JBoss/WildFly application servers, each with PowerServer server and Appeon plug-in installed.
Following are high level steps for configuring a PowerServer cluster. For detailed instructions, please refer to Tutorial 5: Configure PowerServer Cluster in PowerServer Mobile Tutorials. The instructions are exactly the same for PowerServer Web and PowerServer Mobile.
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Install PowerServer to multiple WildFly or JBoss EAP application servers.
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Create PowerServer cluster in AEM.
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Configure the Web server for the PowerServer cluster.
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Install a PowerServer application to the PowerServer cluster and Web server(s).
