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How to enable clustering in Openfire Enterprise?

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What is clustering? A cluster is when you have several servers hosting the same domain. Before Openfire 3.4.0 it was possible to only have one machine hosting a domain. Even though a single machine can scale to very big numbers (e.g. more than 100K concurrent users) there is still a limit in the number of users you can scale. Moreover, if that machine suffers a problem and the server stops then all users will be affected. When using clustering you avoid those two problems. You will be naturally distributing the load among several machines thus even if one of them goes down the entire service will still continue to respond. The users that were connected to the machine that went down will just reconnect to any of the remaining machines. How do I use clustering in Openfire? Clustering is a commercial feature that is available in the Openfire Enterprise 3.4.0 or later. That means that you need to get Openfire Enterprise to be able to use clustering. If you have an existing Openfire Enterpr