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IBM® Sametime® consists of a variety of servers and clients, and can be deployed to suit many different environments. The deployment instructions are organized by feature set, beginning with the minimum components that are necessary to support instant messaging, and then expanding the deployment to include features such as audio and video support, and conferencing.
Clustering servers for high availability and failover
You can provide failover and load balancing in your deployment by creating a cluster of multiple IBM® Sametime® servers of the same type. All Sametime servers can be clustered except for the Sametime System Console, and the Video MCU and TURN Server components of the Sametime Media Manager.
Clustering Sametime® Bandwidth Managers
Deploy and cluster IBM® Sametime® Bandwidth Manager servers using IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.

Clustering Sametime Bandwidth Managers

Deploy and cluster IBM® Sametime® Bandwidth Manager servers using IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.

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Unlike other Sametime servers, the Sametime Bandwidth Manager cannot use the Sametime System Console as a deployment manager. When deploying a cluster of Bandwidth Managers, you must install a dedicated deployment manager for the cluster; you can optionally host it on the same computer as the cluster's primary node. This release of the Bandwidth Manager supports two nodes connected to a deployment manager.

Note: Even if you think you only need one node, you should install two nodes now and federate them to the cell. Attempting to add a second federated node later may result in lost data.

For information about Load Balancing, see the topic Setting up load balancing for a cluster of Sametime Bandwidth Managers in the Configuring the cluster before installing Sametime Bandwidth Manager section of this documentation.