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Hi all.

I need your advise on how to model the mapping of Web applications with Infrastructure. In our case, and to simplify the scenario, we have 3 physical servers where Apache Production farm is hosted, so we created an application deployment and associate the 3 deployed application instances there.

The issue is that we deploy at least 15 applications on the Apache farm, and it seems like the model only allow one instance of application deployment per application deployment instance. We don't want to repeat multiple times the server infrastructure of Apache for each application deployed there.

In a nutshell:
- 15 different applications (Application Provider)
- All of those applications are hosted by the same server cluster
- We'd like to avoid the remapping of the server cluster (Application Software Instance) for every app hosted on the cluster.

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

the model below describes the approach that we would recommend taking to modelling the mapping of your applications to server cluster infrastructure as you describe.


The key is to capture the server cluster as a single Technology Node which contains the 3 servers that make up cluster. A software instance for each application can then be mapped to this one Technology Node.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Jason

Jason, this is really clear and strongly helpful. Thanks!!!