eFTL Cluster

Administrators can arrange an eFTL cluster: several TIBCO eFTL server processes that cooperate as a single unified service. With a cluster you can scale the service’s capacity for client connections and bandwidth beyond the capacity of a single server process on current hardware.

All the server processes in the cluster share the same configuration, which they receive from the realm server.

  • FTL Channels in a Cluster
    When eFTL servers cooperate in a cluster, each FTL channel ensures that all the eFTL clients of each channel can access the entire message stream of the channel. A message travels one of two possible paths, depending on its origin.
  • EMS Channels in a Cluster
    When eFTL servers cooperate in a cluster, their corresponding EMS channels do not forward messages across the cluster. Instead the EMS server forwards messages to the corresponding channels in each server.