I spent a few hours this weekend installing and configuring an Alfresco cluster on GoGrid and ran a 200,000 document Alfresco Benchmark against the cluster. Setup was pretty easy, I simply used the graphical tools to drag 4 Linux servers (1 benchmark client, 1 MySQL, and 2 Alfresco) plus a load-balancer and a cloud storage appliance.
I struggled a few minutes with some Linux firewall issues but after resolving those and raising the ulimit to max, I had a happy cluster. The benchmarks ran for a few hours and averaged a very respectable 10 documents per second.
You can learn more about GoGrid by visiting their site. I’ll also be discussing this and other topics at the San Francisco user conference on May 14th and during the Special Cloud Event on the evening of May 13th. There are still seats available for the cloud computing event so please register by emailing harinder.sunder@alfresco.com.
