HA on PI 1.3 on different VM specs

Hello,
i have two locations both of them have Cisco Prime Infrastracture 1.3
one of them is installed on Large VM and the other installed on Medium VM (different VM specs). my quesiton is: can i configure high availabitly function between the two PI on different VM specs?
Note: they are geographically separated.
thanks
Labib

The Secondary VM must be of equal size or larger.
See snippet and link below for clarification:::
The size of the secondary server must be larger than or equal to that of the primary server; for example, if the primary Cisco Prime Infrastructure server is the medium OVA, then the secondary Cisco Prime Infrastructure server must be the medium or large OVA.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/netmgtsw/ps6504/ps6528/ps12239/deployment_guide_c07-721232.html#wp9000614

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You guys are Sony are smart and design great products, but you are not GOD! You are not our wife, no one has sworn alliagence to you.
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My bad, it´s closer to 40 the number of phones released hehe
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- USB 2.0 - 480Mbps = 52MBps. This is BURST ETR. Sustained Throughput is MUCH slower. According to Storage Review once you take away the overhead of converting data from IDE or SATA to USB, the USB protocol, etc. USB gives you an effective sustained throughput of around 26MBps, or 208mbps. A far cry from 480 burst that USB 2.0 claims. And that is the maximum. Now you need to find a drive that performs as close to that maximum as possible...
- FW400 - 400mbps = 50MBps - this speed, however, is sustained throughput. IOW, even though the numbers are smaller than USB 2.0 (400 vs 480) a FW400 drive is going to be a lot faster. How much faster? Well, not as much as you'd expect. IIRC the actual sustained throughput of a FW400 drive (remember there is overhead) is in the neighborhood of 35MBps, not 50MBps. THis is the speed of actual data streaming from the drive to the PC/laptop, after overhead. 35+MBps.
- FW800 - 800mbps - 100MBps - I don't have any actual numbers for this. If FW400 is doing 35MBps, then I would guess that FW800 is somewhere between 70MBps & 80MBps (if your drive is fast enough to pump data out that quickly!). FW800 would be a little more than twice FW400 (well, theoretically at least) because you only have to subtract the overhead once, not twice. Now, IDE drives, no matter what the interface, are not going to give you sustained throughput this fast, but it does have advantages as we will see with SATA over FW400.
-eSATA - 1.5Gbps = 187.5MBps - In the real world, SATA drives (15k and 10krpm ones no less) will give you somewhere close to 80-90MBps sustained throughput. Not the 187 theoretical limit.
- IDE/ATA/33 = 33MBps or 264mbps - In the real world, sustained throughput from these drives is going to run around the 23-26MBps mark.
- IDE/ATA/66 = 66MBps or 528mbps - In the real world there is almost NO difference in speeds between ATA33 and ATA66 drives. Many times a 7200rpm ATA33 drive can outperform a 5400rpm ATA66 drive. Often times when you see benchmarks showing much better ATA66 performance over ATA33 performance the reason is that the ATA33 drive is a 5400rpm drive, and the ATA66 drive is a 7200rpm drive!
- IDE/ATA/100/133 - There is very little throughput advantage to these either. They do come in faster rpms. In fact the difference is so negligible, that at one point IBM called their ATA100 drives "ATA66+"
SO then, what is the point of ATA100 over ATA33 then? Well if the data that you need is *already in the cache* of your drive, then it will move from the cache to your PC mobo at the ETR speed of 100MBps (in the case of ATA100). This situation is such a small percentage of the requests for data made to a disk, that when you average it out, the results are negligible.
All of this being said, at times it can be a waste to put an ATA100 drive into an ATA33 mobo. For one thing, ATA100 drives are more expensive. For another thing, on those rare occassions where the data you want IS in the drives cache, it can't move it to the PC at 100MBps, it can only do 33MBps.
So, what makes a drive faster? The bottleneck is getting data from the platters to the cache. So, a faster rotational speed will get the data there faster. If you have a 5400rpm ata33 drive, lets say it's getting data to the cache at 20MBps. Now get a 7200rpm version of the same drive, and you may get data at an STR of 26MBps. Both drives are ATA33, and both drives are identical sizes. That 7200rpm ata33 drive can easily be faster than a 5400rpm ata100 disk. Of course different drives have different performance specs... Not all 100GB 5400rpm drives are alike, as we will see at the very end of this post!
OK, so a summary at this point:
Interfaces
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USB 2.0 = ~26MBps (real world STR)
FW400 = ~35MBps
FW800 = ~80MBps (educated guess)
eSATA = somewhere in the 100MBps I would guess I have not seen any SATA interface benchmarks, though I have seen SATA drive benchmarks
Drive Interfaces
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NOTE: with drives there is a range. The higher speeds in the range are generally the 15krpm and the 10krpm drives, at least in my SATA numbers.
ATA33 = 23-26MBps
ATA66 = 23-26MBps
ATA100 & 133 = 23-26MBps
SATA = ~70-90+MBps
So, what drive and what interface to get? USB? FW400? Expresscard-FW800? Expresscard-eSATA? Well, it depends on what you wanna do, really. For streaming video editing, you need 3.6MBps per stream. Remember there will be additional overhead (possibly) on the drive. If you are streaming 2 video streams, each with 2 audio tracks, the drive has got to look that stuff up and stream it from the drive to your application. Hopefully you have a lot of RAM!
Remember that a 5400rpm desktop drive will be slower than a 5400rpm 2.5 laptop drive because the laptop drive is smaller so the same rpms with less physical space to search means faster access times. ALso remember that a 250Gig desktop drive will be slower than an 80Gig laptop drive. Smaller capacity drives are faster which is why you don't see real data warehouse raid servers running multiple 500Gig drives, but rather multiple 120Gig drives. So a 100Gig 7200rpm IDE drive can easily (again depending on the particular drive) smoke a 300Gig 5400rpm desktop drive, and even it's 7200rpm equivalent.
SO (by interface):
If your external hard drive is going to connect via USB (~26MBps) then you want a drive that can take full advantage of that. If you are just transferring data for backups, or copying files back & forth, then any old IDE drive will be just fine. If you are doing video and want to maximize your performance, you want to use as much of that 26MBps bandwidth as possible. Get a 7200rpm IDE drive. A 5400rpm may suffice (again not all 5400rpm drives are equal as I will point out shortly). SO how fast is a 7200rpm drive via USB going to be as compared to a desktop drive? It will be at least on par with any 5400rpm desktop drive, and possibly on par with many 7200rpm desktop drives. See becnhmarks taken from storagereview.com at the end of this post for a limited laptop<->desktop comparison.
Now, if you want to connect via FW400, you want to maximize that 35+MBps bandwidth, right? What are your options? a 7200rpm IDE drive, or a 5400rpmSATA drive (a 7200rpmSATA drive for FW400 is a complete waste of money at this point). So you can get 26MBps from the 7200rpm IDE (wasting only about 9MBps), or MUCH higher from the SATA. The problem is that even if you are getting say 70MBps from a 2.5" external SATA drive (which would likely have to be a 7200rpm drive), you are still limited by the 35+MBps speed of the FW400 connection. You can spend a lot more money and max out that 35MBps w/ SATA, or get slightly lower performance with a 7200rpm IDE drive. THese days, the SATAs are as cheap and in some cases cheaper than the equivalent sized 7200 IDE drives. However, there are caveats (see below) that may make you think twice about getting that SATA over the 7200rpm IDE! Oh, and 7200rpm IDEs are getting faster STRs all the time.
FW800. Basically the same arguements as with FW400. Here's the thing.... why get the FW800 expresscard unless it's REALLY cheap? For about the same price you can get an eSATA expresscard and get better performance (how much is up for debate). Personally I would not even think about FW800. It would be either USB/FW400 on the lower-end, or eSATA on the higher end. FW800 for IDE drives is a waste. Use the internal FW400 port if you can.
eSATA - well, you have no choice. You HAVE to get a SATA hard drive. SImple!
CAVEATS:
Here's the thing. WIth 2.5" drives, IDE drive can operate off of USB bus power. SATA drives often need an external power source. The USB spec only outputs up to 500 or 600 milliamps of power via USB. This is fine for many SATA drives when it comes to reads & writes. However, many require more power for spinup. The Hitachi low power 5k100 SATA drive requires up to 1 amp (1000 milliamps) of power at spinup. The hitachi rep told me that his drive may work on USB power, but running the drive through it's paces would likely need an external (plug into the wall) power source. This is a low power SATA drive too.
Now, if you are going to plug into the wall ANYWAY, then why not just go ahead and get a 3.5" enclosure? For the same price of a 100GB 2.5" SATA drive, you can get a 300GB 3.5" SATA drive! The 3.5" SATA enclosures are a lot cheaper than the 2.5 ones as well.
IDE drives require less power than SATA and can be powered off of the USB port (2.5" drives only - all desktop drives will require AC power!)
CAVEAT #2:
Do you plan to boot windows off of this drive (using the BootCamp windows install hack that allows you to have a small 5Gig windows partition on your Mac for bootstrapping Windows, and where the rest of the windows files are installed to the external drive)? If this is your goal, then Firewire is NOT an option for you!. Windows will NOT boot off of a firewire drive. It will boot off of a USB drive (with the aforementioned hack), or eSATA (w/o the hack).
==========
CONCLUSION
==========
So, I think the best options boil down to the degree of freedom and mobility that you want. If you want a truly portable drive that is not tethered to a wall outlet, then you MUST use an IDE drive, and not SATA. Given the 26MBps real world STR of IDE, and the similar max STR of USB 2.0, this combo makes the most sense. IF you are using your USB ports for other stuff, you can get a FW400 enclosure, or a USB/FW enclosure. FW/USB combo enclosures run around 50% more in price than USB 2.0 only enclosures (iow, about $10 more). And there is not much use in using FW400 unless you have a 7200rpm IDE drive, AND you can't boot from a FW drive if you wanted that option.
If you don't mind being tethered to a wall, I think the best solution for the money is to get a 3.5" SATA enclosure so you can get a much larger drive for your money. It's your choice whether you want to buy a FW800 or eSATA expresscard (I would pick eSATA - no SATA to FW conversion overhead). If you don't want to spend the $100 or whatever on an expresscard, get an external SATA enclosure that is both SATA to eSATA and SATA to FireWire. Again, booting off of Firewire is not an option (at least not for Windows).
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P.S.
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One last point: Not all drives are alike!
Quick and simple point... 2 virtually identical 2.5" 7200rpm drives from different manufacturers can perform very differently.
Take a look at the SR High-end DriveMark2006 scores for the following drives (Higher is better):
Hitachi Travelstar 7k100 (100GB, 2.5", 7200rpm, IDE) = 413
Seagate Momentus 7200.1 (100GB, 2.5", 7200rpm, IDE) = 366
Seagate Momentus 5400.2 (100GB, 2.5", 5400rpm, IDE) = 332
Hitachi Travelstar 5k100 (100GB, 2.5", 5400rpm, IDE) = 326
Western Digital Scorpio WD800VE (80GB, 2.5", 5400rpm, IDE) = 287
What this means is that the Seagate 5400rpm is almost as fast as the Seagate 7200rpm drive, with the Hitachi 5k100 neck & neck! The WD 5400rpm drive, however, is noticably slower.
How does this compare to other drives?
The same test performed on high-end desktop drives (these were the ones that scored the lowest - there were some amazingly fast drives - they are also expensive drives)
Seagate Cheetah 10k.7 Desktop Mode (300GB, 3.5", 10000rpm, Ultra320 SCSI) = 412 (that is SLOWER than the Hitachi travelstar 7k100 IDE drive!!!)
Seagate Cheetah 10k.7 Server Mode (300GB, 3.5", 10000rpm, Ultra320 SCSI) = 410
Hitachi Deskstar 7k400 w/ TCQ (400Gb, 3.5", 7200rpm, SATA) = 392 (Hitachi's own notebook drive beats the SATA in these benchmarks!)
Seagate Savvio 10k.1 Server Mode (74GB, 3.5", Ultra320 SCSI) = 375
Hitachi Ultrastar 10k300 (300GB, 3.5", Ultra320 SCSI) = 369
(look at www.storagereview.com for the bench marks and an explanation of this particular benchmark.)
This means that those IDE notebook drives are pretty fast drives, and can even keep up with some SATA and Ultra320 SCSI desktop/server drives! Unfortunately I could not find STR numbers for the laptop drives on storagereview.com or any other location. If anyone knows of another site, I would love to see the results.
-Brain21
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

So, which FW400 portable drive (brand & model) would
you personally recommend?
Regards,
Neither!
Actually, I am going to be booting Windows from a 5Gig internal (bootcamp) partition and the OS files will reside on the external drive. This limits me to SATA & USB.
I am going to get a USB 2.0 enclosure and get one of those 4 drives mentioned at the end of the article (Hitachi TravelStar 5k100 & 7k100 & the Seagate Momentus 5400 and/or 7200rpm drives). That will be my "mobile" solution.
Then, I'm going to find a SATA enclosure (3.5") that does eSATA and FW. I'll clone my mobile drive onto that (well, at least the windows install). I'll run FW400 until prices for the eSATA cards come down to the $50 range (the cards are already there - well one brand is, but there are no mac drivers for it, just windows... so maybe that cheap one will work for me...)
Don't know what brand & size 3.5 drive I'm gonna get.
As for the enclosures, there is something that I don't know that much about. How much of a difference do the chipsets on these things really make a difference? Oxford is the only chipset that I know by name, but I am going to stay away from those. I saw a recording studio lose thousands of dollars worth of recorded time (that they had to refund) because the oxford chipset on their external HDD died and took the drive with it. When I took it to a data recovery specialist friend of mine and told him what happened his first question was "Oxford chipset?" I'm sure that they are much improved now over 2 years ago, but I don't want to take any chances.
Brain21

Hyper-V over SMB 3.0 poor performance on 1GB NIC's without RDMA

This is a bit of a repost as the last time I tried to troubleshoot this my question got hijacked by people spamming alternative solutions (starwind)
For my own reasons I am currently evaluating Hyper-V over SMB with a view to designing our new production cluster based on this technology. Given our budget and resources a SoFS makes perfect sense.
The problem I have is that in all my testing, as soon as I host a VM's files on a SMB 3.0 server (SoFS or standalone) I am not getting the performance I should over the network.
My testing so far:
4 different decent spec machines with 4-8gb ram, dual/quad core cpu's,
Test machines are mostly Server 2012 R2 with one Windows 8.1 hyper-v host thrown in for extra measure.
Storage is a variety of HD and SSD and are easily capable of handling >100MB/s of traffic and 5k+ IOPS
Have tested storage configurations as standalone, storage spaces (mirrored, spanned and with tiering)
All storage is performing as expected in each configuration.
Multiple 1GB NIC's from broadcom, intel and atheros. The broadcoms are server grade dual port adapters.
Switching has been a combination of HP E5400zl, HP 2810 and even direct connect with crossover cables.
Have tried stand alone NIC's, teamed NIC's and even storage through hyper-v extensible switch.
File copies between machines will easily max out 1GB in any direction.
VM's hosted locally show internal benchmark performance in line with roughly 90% of underlying storage performance.
Tested with dynamic and fixed vhdx's
NIC's have been used in combinations of RSS and TCP offload enabled/disabled.
Whenever I host VM files on a different server from where it is running, I observe the following:
Write speeds within the VM to any attached vhd's are severely effected and run at around 30-50% of 1GB
Read Speeds are not as badly effected but just about manager to hit 70% of 1GB
Random IOPS are not noticeably affected.
Running multiple tests at the same time over the same 1GB links results in the same total through put.
The same results are observed no matter which machine hosts the vm or the vhdx files.
Any host involved in a test will show a healthy amount of cpu time allocated to hardware interupts. On a 6 core 3.8Ghz cpu this is around 5% of total. On the slowest machine (dual core 2.4Ghz) this is roughly 30% of cpu load.
Things I have yet to test:
Gen 1 VM's
VM's running anything other than server 2012 r2
Running the tests on actual server hardware. (hard as most of ours are in production use)
Is there a default QoS or IOPS limit when SMB detects hyper-v traffic? I just can't wrap my head around how all the tests are seeing an identical bottleneck as soon as the storage traffic goes over smb.
What else should I be looking for? There must be something obvious that I am overlooking!

By nature of a SOFS reads are really good, but there is no write cache, SOFS only seems to perform well with Disk mirroring, this improves the write performance and redundancy but halves your disk capacity.
Mirror (RAID1 or RAID10) actually REDUCES number of IOPS. With read every spindle takes part in I/O request processing (assumimg I/O is big enough to cover the stripe) so you multiply IOPS and MBps on amount of spindles you have in a RAID group and all writes
need to go to the duplicated locations that's why READS are fast and WRITES are slow (1/2 of the read performance). This is absolutely basic thing and SoFS layered on top can do nothing to change this.
StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS
Not wanting to put the cat amongst the pigeons, this isn't strictly true, RAID 1 and 10 give you the best IOP performance of any Raid group, this is why all the best performing SQL Cluster use RAID 10 for most of their storage requirements,
Features
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 1E
RAID 5
RAID 5EE
Minimum # Drives
2
2
3
3
4
Data Protection
No Protection
Single-drive
failure
Single-drive
failure
Single-drive
failure
Single-drive
failure
Read Performance
High
High
High
High
High
Write Performance
High
Medium
Medium
Low
Low
Read Performance (degraded)
N/A
Medium
High
Low
Low
Write Performance (degraded)
N/A
High
High
Low
Low
Capacity Utilization
100%
50%
50%
67% - 94%
50% - 88%
Typical Applications
High End Workstations, data
logging, real-time rendering, very transitory data
Operating System, transaction
databases
Operating system, transaction
databases
Data warehousing, web serving,
archiving
Data warehousing, web serving,
archiving

How can I get the Creative Cloud Desktop app To work on Windows Vista?

Currently My CC Desktop app is a greyed out icon.
It has been on and off for months now.
I have called technical support several times and been directed to
1) Uninstall it
2) Run the cleaner
3) Turn AV Software off
4) Delet my prefrences
5) Delet Hosts file in Windows 32 folder
6) Restart, Restart,
7) Use a diffent User account. etc.
The apps work= PS, INDD, AE, PROJ, AI, DW, Fla, etc.
But the Creative Cloud Destop app does not. I have to use the web browser to upload or sync any files.
Anyone have any other ideas I welcome them.
My specs,
Running windows vista, on a very good HP machine.
I have been a loyal Adobe Customer, For more than 15 years.
I have been an Adobe Certified Expert for 3 years or more.
I work professionaly with this software as a teacher. I have taught this software to college grads. and now to highschool students.
Ususally Adobe is one of the best companies to deal? Please stop farming your support calls to other countries, The connections are poor, and the support is terrible and it is damaging your reputation.

Hi D2xS-Shooter,
I am afraid Creative Cloud desktop app is not compatible with Windows Vista. If you run into problems there are very limited resources from Adobe to assist.
Creative Cloud is a collection of apps with various different tech specs
http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/creativecloud/tech-specs.html
Thanks!
Eshant

CS5 64-Bit applications crashing on Basic File Operations

Hi all,
I am having a big problem running photoshop 64-bit (32-bit works ok), it opens ok but when you go to file and click either Open or Save the application just closes with no error report. I have been on quite a few forums about this, common answers seem to be the following:-
Open GL (switch off or take vertical option Off)
update graphics driver (fully up to date)
Windows Updates ( fully up to date)
Delete the CS5 Service Manager folder out of the local profile
Stop WACOM service (haven't got a tablet installed)
Create new user (unfortunately the default user profile has been overwrite for sysprep purposes so nit affects every new user)
None of which have worked, I would really like to avoid rebuilding as it takes about 2 days to rebuild from scratch. We are using CS5 on a College network I currently have over 250 pc's using Windows 64-bit, on four different pc specs the main spec is as follows:-
Core i7-2600S
4 GB Ram
Intel Q67 Express Chipset Family (version 9.2.0.1025)
Intel Processor Graphics 2000 (Version 8.15.10.2509)
Video Bios A00 (2089)
This spec is only used for photoshop and illustrator, my other specs are for premiere and after effects which also have the same problem although premiere is slightly different it allows you to open the dialog box for import then reports not responding and gives you a dialogue do you want to report to windows but the XML file isn't created.
Has anyone encountered a similar problem
Please let me know
cheers
lee

thanks for the suggestions i did abit more digging to find it was a corruption in windows. the fix was:-
run command prompt as administrtor and run sfc /scannow
after a reboot everything works fine

How to get Zen Touch to work on Windows Vista without PFS (worked!)

CHow to get Zen Touch to work on Windows Vista without PFS (worked!)? ***THIS WORKED***
For all of you that want to get their music out of the Zen touch, and are stuck with Vista and .0.03 firmware (non vista recognisable), and don't want to erase everything by installing the latest firmware, here is what worked for me:
)Uninstall every piece of Touch software you got and reboot.
2) Download the latest drivers from Creative: JB3MV2...exe, together with the latest Nomad explorer, and the latest Notmad explorer from Red Chair (a trial is enough, version 9.0.3 currently).
3) Right click the driver, properties, go to compatibility mode, and select Windows XP SP2. Make sure your Zen is unplugged (worked for me that way). Right click the driver installer again and Run as Administrator. It hanged around 72% for me, no biggy, open your task manager and shut the installer off.
4)Before rebooting, install Notmad explorer.(I installed only the Zen touch part of it. I tried to run it right away but got a 'cannot find explorer.exe error - again, no biggy).
5) Reboot, plug in your Zen. Again for me, Notmad didn't work. This is what worked: Without messing up anything, install Nomad Explorer by Creative on top of it all, and reboot again.
6) After reboot, with your Zen still plugged in, right click the little Notmad icon on the right part of the taskbar and select 'Connect Jukebox Zen'. And voila, check your explorer, it should hopefully recognise the Zen Touch like windows xp would.
If you still run into trouble, just install stuff from the beggining, making sure Compatibility: WinXP SP2 and Run as Admin are used everywhere, and keep rebooting till it hopefully works.
Best of luck. edit: Using Winamp to transfer files worked as well.

Hi D2xS-Shooter,
I am afraid Creative Cloud desktop app is not compatible with Windows Vista. If you run into problems there are very limited resources from Adobe to assist.
Creative Cloud is a collection of apps with various different tech specs
http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/creativecloud/tech-specs.html
Thanks!
Eshant

Trying to undestand container interoperability

Hello !
After a while of reading the different j2ee specs (EJB, JTA, JTS...), I
thought I understood that it is possible for a bean in a container A to
invoke a bean in a container B. The dialog between containers is supposed to
be in RMI-IIOP.
First question : how does it look like from the point of view of the calling
bean ? does it perform a classic lookup like a normal EJB client ? In this
case, the lookup must be performed on the JNDI server of container B no ?
thus it is necessary to specify parameters when instanciating an
InitialContext, no ?
Second question : If the way the calling bean calls the bean in container B
looks like what I wondered in my first question, how can transaction and
security context be propagated to the container B ? Actually, if the bean A
retrieves a stub from the JNDI of B and performs invocation of B, how can
the B stub know that A is currently in a transaction in order to tell it to
B ?
Actually, while writing my questions, it looks like the B stub does not
necessarily talks to container B by using RMI-IIOP. So, what bean A should
do to make container A use RMI-IIOP to talk to B ?
Forgive me if my questions are a bit confused, but I desperately want to
know if and how it is possible to make two beans interoperate between
different containers. And as per the EJB 2 spec, RMI-IIOP seems to be the
solution, I'd like to understand how a bean can make use of this.
Thanks for your patience
Sylvain

Thanks for your reply. I still have a couple of questions...
"Andy Piper" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
"Sylvain Laurent" <[email protected]> writes:
Correct, but the lookup actually happens via CosNaming. So the scenariois:
>
Client -> JNDI -> CosNaming -----------> IIOP ----------> CosNaming ->JNDI -> Server
Your figure makes me think that the client instanciates an InitialContext
with the default parameters, no ?
And it has ejb-ref specially declared in its ejb-jar.xml ? Could you provide
me with an example ?
Transactional characteristics are specified in the exported IOR's and
transactions are propagated via OTS.You mean that container B exports an IOR to container A, which in turns will
know how to handle transactions when bean A invoke bean B, correct ?
Because in the case where A makes a direct look-up of bean B with the JNDI
of B, container A has no opportunity to know what's going on, correct ?
>
Actually, while writing my questions, it looks like the B stub does not
necessarily talks to container B by using RMI-IIOP. So, what bean Ashould
>
Why not?Because, for instance WLS uses its own t3 protocol. Thus I can say that if B
is WLS, B stub talks with container B using T3, unless I made a special
thing to force it to use RMI-IIOP.
Forgive me if my questions are a bit confused, but I desperately want to
know if and how it is possible to make two beans interoperate between
different containers. And as per the EJB 2 spec, RMI-IIOP seems to bethe
>
Of course. This has been demonstrated at the last JavaOne.Unfortunately I was not at the last JavaOne. What was the config for the
demo ? What containers ?
Actually I find it quite frustrating not to be able to find any page showing
a kind of step by step procedure to make two containers work together. Do
you know of any such a page ?
Thanks for your support.
Sylvain

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