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Welcome

1. Introduction

Welcome to the Admin Guide for SVN MultiSite Plus, WANdisco's enterprise edition of Subversion MultiSite. This is where you'll find all the information you'll need for planning a deployment, installing and managing the software.

If you can't find what you're looking for check out our online Knowledgebase which contains updates and extra documentation. Should you need further help and want to alert us to an error, please contact us by raising a case on our support website.

We'll be using terms like "node" and "replication group" without explaining what we mean. Check out the Glossary for an explanation of these and other WANdisco terms.

For a better understanding about how MultiSite and WANdisco's replication technology works read the Subversion MultiSite Technical Guide.

1.1 What is Subversion MultiSite?

Subversion MultiSite is the core of WANdisco's enterprise Subversion product line:

• Subversion replication, mirroring and clustering for enterprise performance and 24-by-7 availability.


• Subversion MultiSite means that a central Subversion server is no longer a single point of failure, or performance bottleneck and the effects of WAN latency are greatly reduced.


• By combining WANdisco's patented replication technology and intelligent load balancing software, Subversion can be deployed in an active-active WAN cluster that delivers optimum performance, scalability and availability, with built-in continuous hot backup.


Read more about Subversion MultiSite on the WANdisco website

1.2 Intended Audience

This documentation is intended for use by system administrators who have been given the task of evaluating, deploying and managing their organization's version control systems. Subversion MultiSite is a distributed computer system. It's worth thinking of a Subversion MultiSite deployment as a single application running across a number of far-flung nodes, rather than instances of the same application. It's likely therefore than the job of managing Subversion MultiSite will be shared across a number of locations, especially in organizations where software development "follows the sun".

1.3 Documentation for 3rd party components

Subversion MultiSite may be integrated with open source software components that require user-level documentation, in these cases we endeavour to provide links to open source vendor's own documentation.

1.4 Release Notes

For details of new features and fixes see the Subversion MultiSite Release Notes.

We'll be using lots of terms from Subversion and related tools. To help readers who are new to Subversion we've included a Glossary for an explanation of these and other WANdisco / Subversion terms.

1.5 Feedback

If you find an error, or if you think that something needs improving we'd like to hear about it. Tell us about it by raising a case on our support website or emailing docs@wandisco.com.

1.6 Key

Throughout this document we'll highlight things using the following types of information box.

Alert
We use alerts to highlight something we think is important for you to know.

Caution
The stop symbol is used when we want to caution you against doing something.

Tip
Tips are principles or practices that you'll benefit from knowing or using.

Knowledgebase
The KB symbol indicates that you can find out more about the subject in our online Knowledgebase.

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