Tridion Installation
- by Kevin Brydon
I am currently upgrading an installation of Tridion from 5.3 to 2011 starting almost from scratch (aside from migrating the database), brand new virtual servers. I just want to ask for some advice on my current server setup... a sanity check.
All servers are running Windows Server 2008. The pages on our website are all classic ASP.
Database
SQL Server cluster. The 5.3 database has been migrated using the DatabaseManager. This is pretty standard and works well (in test anyway).
Content Manager
A single server to run the Content Manager and the Publisher. There are around 10 people using it at any one time so not under a particularly heavy load.
Content Data Store
Filesystem located somewhere on the network. One directory for live and one for staging.
Content Delivery
Two servers (cd1 and cd2) each with the the following server roles installed. cd1 writes to a filesystem content data store for the live website, cd2 writes to the content data store for the staging website.
Presentation
Two public facing web servers (web1 and web2) serving both the live and staging websites. The web servers read directly from the content data store as its a filesystem. Each of the web servers have the Content Delivery Server installed so that I can use dynamic linking (and other features?).
I've so far set up everything but the web servers.
Any thoughts?
edit
Thanks to Ram S who linked me to a decent walkthrough, upvoted. I suppose I should have posed some questions as I didn't really ask a question. I guess I'm a little confused over the content deliver aspect.
I have the Content Delivery split in two separate parts. cd1 and cd2 do the work of shifting information from the Content Manager to the Staging/Live web directories. web1 and web2 should do the work of serving the web pages to the outside world and will interact with the content data store (file system). Is this a correct setup? I need some parts of the Content Delivery on my web servers right?
Theoretically I could get rid of the cd1 and cd2 servers and use web1 and web2 to do the deployment right? But I suspect this will put the web servers under unnecessary strain should there ever be a big publish.
I've been reading the 2011 Installation Manual, Content Delivery section, and I'm finding it quite hard to get my head around!