Is Tomcat Shared Session / Cluster between two machine possible?
- by Snorri
I have a setup of several Tomcat servers distributed between a few servers, all running the same thing. Apache is on top of Apache and a loadbalancer in front of the Apache servers. I want to cluster the Tomcats using Shared Session to minimize downtime and user interruption while deploying apps.
I know clustering works within the same server but is it possible to setup Tomcat in a way that it shares sessions between servers on different machines?
= Server 1
== Apache 1
=== Tomcat 1
= Server 2
== Apache 2
=== Tomcat 2
When Server/Tomcat 1 would be taken down, users and their sessions would transfer over to Server/Tomcat 2 and vice versa.