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Runtime cloud installation checklist (Windows)

Before installing the runtime cloud on Windows, ensure that your computer meets the system requirements, install PowerShell, synchronize clocks, and consider failover and disaster recovery needs. Also, ensure you have administrator access to the machine.

Check runtime cloud system requirements

Check the runtime cloud's system requirements.

Install PowerShell

The runtime cluster nodes require a minimum of Windows PowerShell version 2.0. runtime clusters also support later versions, such as Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7.0. Microsoft installs Windows PowerShell on every version starting with Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. For more information, see Installing Windows PowerShell and Installing PowerShell on Windows.

Synchronize clocks and time zones

Ensure that the clock on all runtime cluster nodes, including central storage services (such as NFS), synchronize regularly using a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. However, suppose the clocks on the machines are not closely synchronized. In that case, you are likely to encounter problems with:

  • Clustering protocol
  • Accurate time recording for cross-node action
  • Accurate handling of files on the shared file system

Ensure that you set all machines to use the same time zone, including the devices on which the runtime cluster nodes run and the file servers you use. See your operating system’s documentation for instructions on setting your machines’ time zone.

Consider failover and disaster recovery needs

For information about backup and disaster recovery best practices for runtime clusters and runtime clouds, review the following resources in the Boomi Community:

If you take point-in-time snapshots of your systems with a tool such as VMware, you do not have to take images of the nodes in a runtime cluster or runtime cloud. The nodes do not contain any valuable information beyond operating system settings. However, if you want to take a snapshot of a runtime cluster or runtime cloud node, do so only once at setup time and before starting the node.

note

Boomi does not recommend taking snapshots of runtime cluster or runtime cloud nodes on an ongoing basis. Doing so can negatively impact the node's operational stability.

Obtain Administrator access

Depending on the version of Windows you are running, you might need Administrator access to the system where you plan to install runtime cloud cluster.

Install the runtime cloud

After you complete the prerequisites, do the following tasks in order. Links to the tasks are at the bottom of the topic.

Warning

If there are Unicode characters in the directory path to where you intend to install the runtime cloud, the installation will fail.

  1. Add a runtime cloud.

  2. Download the runtime cloud cluster installer.

  3. Set up a Windows shared directory for the runtime cloud.

  4. Install the initial runtime cloud cluster on Windows.

  5. Set up the runtime cloud’s Windows service.

  6. Install additional runtime cloud cluster. You must do this on each machine that you add to the runtime cloud.

  7. (Optional) See the section about maintaining runtimes. You might want to modify how the runtime cloud runs, change default settings, or even remove the runtime cloud.

  8. (Optional) If you didn’t enable local storage when you ran the installer, recommends that you do so to reduce unnecessary network traffic. See the topic about enabling working data storage.

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