When you use the multiserver configuration to install ColdFusion Enterprise Edition, you can use the ColdFusion Administrator to create multiple server instances. Deploying ColdFusion on multiple server instances lets you isolate individual applications and leverage clustering functionality.

Management of multiple server instances changed significantly as of ColdFusion MX 7, as follows:

ColdFusion MX

Use a J2EE deployment, along with J2EE application server features to deploy the ColdFusion application on multiple instances of the J2EE application server.

ColdFusion MX 7

Use the ColdFusion Administrator in the multiserver configuration to create JRun server instances and to automatically deploy the ColdFusion application on those instances. Additionally, you can combine the Administrator-driven server-instance creation with the ColdFusion Administrator J2EE Archive feature to deploy a ColdFusion application that contains all of your application's CFM files (including CFCs and CFRs), settings (including data source definitions), and the ColdFusion web application. For more information on J2EE Archive, see Packaging applications in J2EE archive files.

Contents

• About multiple server instances
• Defining additional server instances
• Enabling application isolation
• Enabling clustering for load balancing and failover
• Defining remote server instances to the ColdFusion Administrator