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dba100
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Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

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"Community Edition doesn't support clustering OOTB."

this means when community edition sees it is a MySQL InnodB cluster or MariaDB galaria cluster by reading the DB metadata will is not going to connect?

 

and community edition can't also runs on top of any node in the Window cluster but standalone windows server.

 

and the mysQL or MariaDB cluster must be ONLY installed on single node Windows server 2019?

 

dba100
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hi,

what is the minimum hardware requirement for Alfresco 6.2 as a VM?

sufo
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Alfresco Community Edition doesn't support clustering of repository (backend tier). It doesn't check if your database is clustered. You can cluster different tiers of solution, but do you really need it?
Basically you have different tiers: Share as a frontend, Repository as a backend, Solr for indexing, database for metadata storage and some other stuff (like tranformation, messaging) and each tier can run on a different server if you want to. Therefore it is hard to answer your questions when one doesn't know the details.

Regarding minimum HW requirements it depends on the setup. It will run on 2 cores with 6GB of RAM, but definitely not for the production. Do you want to run it as a Docker? Or install it manually?

Here https://github.com/Alfresco/acs-deployment/blob/master/docker-compose/community-docker-compose.yml you can see that 12GB of RAM is recommended and you can see memory limits for each component.

dba100
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"Alfresco Community Edition doesn't support clustering of repository (backend tier). It doesn't check if your database is clustered. You can cluster different tiers of solution, but do you really need it?

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Sorry haven't reply you for a while as I am focusing on database tuning.

I just want our Alfresco do not have single point of failure, now we are running Alfresco 5.0, quite old. 

on our design it is the ONLY piece of component has single point of failure so we have to avoid it.

and yes, it should be right that HOW Alfresco community edition 5.0 check that out if our database, like MariaDB, is running galaria cluster?


"Basically you have different tiers: Share as a frontend, Repository as a backend, Solr for indexing, database for metadata storage and some other stuff (like tranformation, messaging) and each tier can run on a different server if you want to. Therefore it is hard to answer your questions when one doesn't know the details."

I am not sure how can I run Alfresco app tier in a cluster mode so one node down is not going to kill the whole alfresco platform. 

That;s why we have to make as much component cluster/scalble as possible. 

"Regarding minimum HW requirements it depends on the setup. It will run on 2 cores with 6GB of RAM, but definitely not for the production. Do you want to run it as a Docker? Or install it manually?

Here https://github.com/Alfresco/acs-deployment/blob/master/docker-compose/community-docker-compose.yml you can see that 12GB of RAM is recommended and you can see memory limits for each component."

 

we will need a UAT platform and PROD platform for any verison starting from 5.2 as we are using 5.0, not very much can be done?

what is the benefit to run alfresco on docker if we do not have a cloud platform? only local server/VM running windows for Alfresco ?

May I have one more question ? we are using 5.0 community edition, what is the POSSIBLE upgrade path from 5. 0 to 7.0 community.

 

right now what we are doing is to separate each tier.

1) 1 x VM for Application

2) 1 x VM for database

3) separate the content store to a NAS instead of all in local server.

 

dba100
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Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

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sorry , what if the PostgreSQL already have a lot of content, any method to relocate the PosgreSQL to another Windows server VM?