Large Site Configuration
As your capacity needs grow, you can improve site performance by doing any of the following:
Adding servers to your production environment
Upgrading existing servers
Improving site architecture
The following figure shows an example of a large site production environment of 10 to 100 servers.
Data Warehouse Management Tasks
Data Warehouse Storage
Data Warehouse
Profile Server Cluster
Catalog Replication System
Client
NLB Cluster
Catalog Servers
Corporate LAN
NLB Cluster
Direct Mailer
Server
Marketing
Server Cluster
Business Desk
Server
Domain Controller 2
Domain Controller 1
**Business processing logic:
Business Analytics
Catalog
List Manager
Pipeline components
Predictor client
Profile Service
Targeting System
Transactions
Server Cluster
Administration Server Cluster
Web Server Cluster
Active Directory
Internet
Access
This configuration separates each of the component databases onto its own Microsoft SQL Server cluster. In addition, the Catalogs database is installed over multiple load-balanced clusters. Additional Web servers are added to spread out the load on Commerce Server services and applications.
For more information about planning and deploying a large site configuration, see the Commerce Server 2000 Resource Kit.