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erwin_seah
Inspiring
March 14, 2007
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FMS Clustering Questions

  • March 14, 2007
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Hi all,

I have a single source of input for video that needs to be published to a large number of viewers via the FMS. I am aware that Adobe proposes the use of the Edge and Origin servers for this kind of solutioning, however, I am unable to find much tutorial nor walkthrough to set up the network. Is anyone able to point me to a good guide on how to perform the setup on this?

Alternatively, I am thinking that this can also be done if I can upload my input source to one single FMS instance and replicate the inputs (perhaps through replication) to the other FMS instance. Does anyone has any known approach to this, and maybe a even better approach or solution to the problem.

Thanks a million!
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    erwin_seahAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 15, 2007
    Thanks Charles for your reply.

    I read on the Adobe documentations that it is fairly easy to set up the Edge/Origin cluster. Howeve, the instructions weren't really clear to me; and after messing around with the various configuration files, the servers failed to even start up. I would like to ask if anyone can tell me what are the various configuration files and their attributes on both Edge and Origin server that requires modification to get the cluster up.

    Apologies for needing a step by step guide for this is my first time working on the Flash Technology. Thanks!
    Anonymous
    March 15, 2007
    I haven't configured an origin/edge network myself, but AFAIK you need to have a vaild Origin license before the origin/edge model will work.
    Anonymous
    March 14, 2007
    While the Origin/Edge server is set up for scaling, you can also do it with multiple pro servers. You can structure your FMS application to fetch streams from other FMS servers, so you can spread your streaming app across multiple servers fairly easily.

    Look into the SSAS docs for the stream class. There are examples that show how to connect to a remote stream on another FMS server.

    If you're talking about serving many thousands of clients at a time, you might be better off using a CDN like Akamai or Vitalstream. Depending on your business model, it might prove to be more cost effective.
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