Multiple MediaBin Server services on same machine?

System

I have the impression that the answer is "no", but I'd like a confirmation.

We need to do some cost-cutting, and I've been asked to look at putting our DEV and QA MediaBin servers on the same server. Today our DEV and QA boxes are quad-processor, 4GB memory machines that are largely under-used, so it would not be a problem.

The thing is that, despite the fact that you can specify a port for the MB Server service, I have the impression that the installation process for MB Server does not support installing several servers on the same machine...

Can anyone confirm?

If this is the case we may want to try building virtual machines, but I have the sensation that there will be problems even in that case.

Folco Banfi

lyman

I will confirm it is a bad idea! I would suggest migrating the dev box to a cheap PC.

The problem is that MediaBin uses a large number of resources that would have to be sorted out so that the two instances did not interefere with each other.

Switching between instances as long as you can bring one down whil the other is up is a far more tractable problem (basically it involves some hand editing of registry settings). If timesharing of that sort is a possibiliity we can try to help.

Cheers,

Lyman