Inquiry on Externalising Hazelcast in PEGA

Hi Team,

We are currently exploring the option to externalise Hazelcast within our PEGA environment and would appreciate your expertise and guidance on this matter.

Feasibility and Best Practices:

  • Is it feasible to externalise Hazelcast in our current PEGA setup?
  • What are the best practices for externalising Hazelcast in PEGA?

We saw this link: https://support.pega.com/question/hazelcast-externalization?

How is it different from below link.

whats drawback to deploy Hazlecast external using the link -

https://docs.pega.com/bundle/platform/page/platform/deployment/externalization-of-services/deploy-hz-vm-based-cluster-overview.html

@RamaM16704160 please go through the available resources.

Third-party externalized services Deployment Changes FAQs

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To externalize Hazelcast in your Pega Platform deployment follow these best practices: 1) Use the Pega provided Clustering Service for both containerized and VM based deployments. 2) Configure the prconfig.xml file to set the operation mode to external and specify the external members’ host and port. 3) Ensure that you run the Hazelcast Server nodes on separate VMs for better performance. 4) Monitor resource usage closely to validate configurations and perform performance and scalability tests. 5) If using Pega Cloud services Pega configures and maintains external services for you requiring no action on your part. 6) Follow the recommended order for externalizing services: Kafka Cassandra Hazelcast and then Elasticsear

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