Overview of the Clustering Tutorials

These tutorials guide you through the process of creating and configuring a new cluster using the WebLogic Configuration Wizard and Administration Console. They also explain how to deploy the Avitek Medical Records sample application on the new cluster.

The cluster you will create in this tutorial contains an Administration Server and three Managed Servers as shown in the figure below. In these tutorials, you create the entire cluster on one machine. However, production clusters generally include multiple machines and/or specialized hardware.

Figure 1: MedRecClusterDomain

You will also need to run the PointBase database on the cluster machine. If your machine does not have enough resources to host all servers, you can create only two servers, Medrec1 and MedRec2, in the cluster.