VMware virtual IPs and JBoss port abstraction

[monctonjohn]

Here's the story for us. We have JBoss running on a VM server with three instances:

10.10.10.10:8080
10.10.10.10:8180
10.10.10.10:8280

We were give three virtual IPs:

10.10.10.11
10.10.10.12
10.10.10.13

We would like to have some form of abstraction such that when the end-user points their browser to one of the virtual IPs it will forward them to the correct instance of the application:

10.10.10.11 ==> 10.10.10.10:8080
10.10.10.12 ==> 10.10.10.10:8180
10.10.10.13 ==> 10.10.10.10:8280

I have my doubts that this can be done at the application level, but the group that gave us the VIPs says this is where its done (apparently in IIS this is how its done, but I don't know IIS or JBoss that well).

Any and all help is appreciated.

[peterj]

In the VM, if you open a command prompt and type "ipconfig /all" do all three addresses show up? If so, you could use the -b option to run each JBoss AS instance on a different IP address:

run -b 10.10.10.11
run -b 10.10.10.12
run -b 10.10.10.13

[monctonjohn]

Thanks for the reply... I did as you suggested (great idea btw... I should have thought of that). I think this will work for us :)