Setting up Multiple Instances of JBoss on the same machine

I don't have several physical servers but I want to run several instances of JBossAS. What can I do?

Two options are available:

Binding each instance to a different ip adress (recommended approach)

Server instances using the same port set can run concurrently on the same server if bound to a different ip address.

e.g.

$run.sh -c node1 -b 192.168.4.151

$run.sh -c node2 -b 192.168.4.152

We highly recommend using this technique over the ServiceBindingManager approach (see below) which makes server log debugging very difficult.

This blog is a good guide to how to achieve this in the Windows family of operating systems.

Configuring different port sets using the ServiceBindingManager

The procedure is all explained in this wiki ConfigurePorts