Topology and Communication General Concepts

Topology and Communication General Concepts

Before you configure your Pivotal GemFire members, make sure you understand the options for topology and communication.

  • Topology Types
    The Pivotal GemFire topology options allow you to scale horizontally and vertically.
  • Planning Topology and Communication
    Create a topology plan and a detailed list of machines and communication ports that your members will use. Configure your Pivotal GemFire systems and configure the communication between the systems.
  • How Member Discovery Works
    Pivotal GemFire provides various options for member discovery within a distributed system and between clients and servers.
  • How Communication Works
    GemFire uses a combination of TCP and UDP unicast and multicast for communication between members. You can change the default behavior to optimize communication for your system.
  • Using Bind Addresses
    You use a bind address configuration to send network traffic through non-default network cards and to distribute the load of network traffic for GemFire across multiple cards. If no bind address setting is found, GemFire uses the host machine's default address.
  • Choosing Between IPv4 and IPv6
    By default, Pivotal GemFire uses Internet Protocol version 4 for GemFire address specifications. You can switch to Internet Protocol version 6 if all your machines support it. You may lose performance, so you need to understand the costs of making the switch.
Parent topic: Topologies and Communication