Tomcat or IIS/Apache or Both?

[Former Member]

We are currently on BOXI 3.1 SP1, have a .net Infoview installation and using wacs for the CMC. As part of a planned upgrade to 64 bit architecture and BOXI 3.1 SP6 we were planning to move over to the Java version of InfoView and drop wacs.

I am currently considering 2 options for our Web and Java App server - Tomcat and IIS using the ISAPI plugin or Tomcat and Apache. However due to hardware constraints we have single servers acting as web and app tiers.

Is it possible to have a single server with IIS and Tomcat runnng side by side?

Are there any pitfalls in simply using Tomcat and not using IIS or Apache? On single server build wouldn't this make more sense to reduce resource usage?

Thanks

Paul

[denis_konovalov]

You do not need IIS or Apache in front of tomcat for most deployments. What's your usage scenario ?

Also, Xi3.1 Sp6 is still 32 bit, if you're moving to 64bit platform, why not go with BI4.1 , which is 64bit (server side)

[Former Member]

Thanks Dennis..

We had planned to move to BI4.1 but after doing a server sizing exercise the costs proved prohibitive as we are on a per cpu licencing agreement. At least the move to 64 bit will allow us to use more RAM and SP6 would also put us in a position to use the Deski compatability features when we do move to 4.1

The majority of our usage is Deski reports accessed through InfoView. Probably a 80/20 Deski/Webi split. We are planning to convert all our Deski to Webi within the next year. Our peak user concurrency is around 60 users.

We currently have 2 clustered production servers, each acting as combined IIS web/app server. Each server is Win 2003,  dual core processor and 4GB RAM. The only load balancing done at server level is through directing specific groups of users to separate urls.

It seems to me that Tomcat would suffice for us. The only reason I can see for going down the IIS route would be to keep our server team happy.

[denis_konovalov]

well if you have 2 servers, you can have IIS or Apache as load balancer between your tomcats. (Apache is better )

On 3.1 you're Deski processing servers will still be bound to 2gb memory limit, but with more server memory you could have more deski proc servers.