Essbase Enterprise Services enables you to group sets of Essbase servers running applications with identical databases and use them as a single resource in your client programs. Clustering of servers enables features such as load balancing and failover support. Load balancing enables requests to Essbase servers to be distributed across a cluster of Essbase servers running identical databases. Failover support detects service interruptions in a cluster, and reroutes requests to other available Essbase servers in a cluster. You must restart the server to reflect changes to the cluster.
To define a cluster:
In the navigation panel, select a domain under Domains or select Clusters if clusters have already been created.
Right-click, then select Create > Cluster.
In the dialog that is displayed, type the name for your cluster; for example, mycluster.
Click OK.
In the navigation panel, select the cluster that you have just created.
In the cluster's properties panel, set the service component name; for example, localhost/Demo/Basic;localhost/Demo2/Basic.
Click Save.
Specify the cluster name in the properties panel of the Enterprise Server for which you want to associate the cluster.