Installing a Dedicated Consolidated Database Within an Unwired Server Cluster

Install a consolidated database (CDB) so that it is independent of any Unwired Server instance in the cluster.

To improve performance, you may want to install a dedicated CDB in a cluster of Unwired Servers so that it is independent of any Unwired Server within that cluster. Typically, as client load increases, the CDB becomes a bottleneck. If a single Unwired Server becomes a bottleneck, you can always add more servers to your cluster, and the load is balanced between all servers. However, you cannot add more CDBs—one CDB handles the entire load for database-related work. A dedicated CDB improves performance because it does not compete with other Unwired Server components for CPU and I/O resources.

See the Sybase Unwired Platform Installation Guide for additional information.

Install the first Unwired Server in the cluster (using either the Personal Developer Edition or the Enterprise Developer Edition), as a Windows Service. This is the dedicated CDB node.
Select the Create new cluster option. This Unwired Server serves as the dedicated CDB for the Unwired Server cluster.
After installing the CDB node, disable starting of non-CDB services on the dedicated CDB host:
1. From Windows, select Start > Settings > Control Panel .
2. Select Administrative Tools > Services .
3. Disable all Unwired Server services except the CDB database (identified as SybaseUnwiredPlaform<hostname>Database1, where hostname is the name of the host system), including:
  - WatchDog – SybaseUnwiredPlaformhostnameWatchdog1
  - Server – SybaseUnwiredPlaformhostnameServer1
  - Sybase Unified Agent
  - OpenDS LDAP server (for Unwired Server Developer Edition installations)
Install other instances of Unwired Server (Deployment Edition) on the other hosts in the cluster.
Select Add to existing cluster when prompted, and join the cluster to which the dedicated CDB belongs.