Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 High Availability Administration Guide

Configurations Created when Creating Instances or Clusters

When creating a new server instance or a new cluster, either:

By default, new clusters or instances are created with configurations copied from the default-config configuration. To copy from a different configuration, specify it when creating a new instance or cluster.

For a server instance, the new configuration is named instance_name-config . For a cluster, the new configuration is named cluster-name -config.

For more information, see:

Clustered Configuration Synchronization

When you create a clustered configuration, Enterprise Server creates a cluster configuration directory on the domain administration server at domain-root/domain-dir/config/cluster-config. This directory is used to synchronize configurations for all instances in the cluster.