Large Site Configuration

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As your capacity needs grow, you can improve site performance by doing any of the following:

  • Adding servers to your production environment

  • Upgrading existing servers

  • Improving site architecture

The following figure shows an example of a large site production environment of 10 to 100 servers.

Data Warehouse Management Tasks

Data Warehouse Storage

Data Warehouse

Profile Server Cluster

Catalog Replication System

Large site configuration

Client

NLB Cluster

Catalog Servers

Corporate LAN

NLB Cluster

Direct Mailer
Server

Marketing
Server Cluster

Business Desk
Server

Domain Controller 2

Domain Controller 1

**Business processing logic:
Business Analytics
Catalog
List Manager
Pipeline components
Predictor client
Profile Service
Targeting System

Transactions
Server Cluster

Administration Server Cluster

Web Server Cluster

Active Directory

Internet
Access

This configuration separates each of the component databases onto its own Microsoft SQL Server cluster. In addition, the Catalogs database is installed over multiple load-balanced clusters. Additional Web servers are added to spread out the load on Commerce Server services and applications.

For more information about planning and deploying a large site configuration, see the Commerce Server 2000 Resource Kit.


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