Hosting 2 svrs from same ip

[Johnny82 7]

I currently have dedi server 2012r2 running Tanoa in a vm. I want to spin up another vm to host altis. It's there a way to have both of the servers show seeing as they essentially will have the same external ip?

Do I need to change the steam and game port on the altis svr too or can both use the same ports, as they will have a different internal ip?

Last question was around copying the Tanoa vm and just changing the mission file to altis? Presumably I would then have to install all the mods from scratch?

[GamersRoost 265]

 

MAKE BACKUPS (Export all data in self contained files for each schema).

DELETE Schema Exile.Altis ONLY. 

Open a new Sql query window (blank query at the upper left of workbench)

Paste https://pastebin.com/NjasERKa into workbench empty query window.

Execute query

Restart SQL service (just because)

Start server

Profit.

Tested on my currently live DB and it works perfectly.

Good luck.

Josh

Edited April 25, 2017 by GamersRoost

[wilderness 91]

I think you can use the same IP address but give each server a different port 2303, 2403, 2503 etc, ideally 10 apart to allow for rcon and steam ports etc

[tinboye 219]

Wilderness is correct

you just specify new port# for each server

in 10 IP increments

3202-2311 reserved for server 1, 2312-1221 for server 2 and so on and so forth.

I like to keep my rcon 4 ports diff than my game port

so 2302 for game port, 2303 steam query port, 2306 rcon port.

in your commandline just have 1st server with -port=2302
2nd port commandline -port=2312

[GamersRoost 265]

6 hours ago, Johnny82 said:

I currently have dedi server 2012r2 running Tanoa in a vm. I want to spin up another vm to host altis. It's there a way to have both of the servers show seeing as they essentially will have the same external ip?

Do I need to change the steam and game port on the altis svr too or can both use the same ports, as they will have a different internal ip?

Last question was around copying the Tanoa vm and just changing the mission file to altis? Presumably I would then have to install all the mods from scratch?

Sounds like you mean create a separate machine completely? "Spinning up" means to create a totally new virtual machine off of the hypervisor.

Are you simply wanting to create another server on the same WS2012R2 that you have, or do you mean what I asked above?

Thanks for answering. This is actually my forte'. In real life, this is what I do. Also, I currently have 3 servers running same "VM" and same IP with different ports.

the VM has specifically assigned cores in the hypervisor and in my command-line (/affinity 0xAA for instance) to prevent what everyone says about "exile does not like to run multiple instances on the same machine". I have quite a bit of over-head though.

 

 

If you want to build an entirely new VM on VMware or Hyper-V, then you'll need another IP address for the 2nd VM which you would need to statically assign.

Josh 

[odizzzzle 99]

i would NOT make a new vm.. just make a new folder.. change ports.

[GamersRoost 265]

12 minutes ago, odizzzzle said:

i would NOT make a new vm.. just make a new folder.. change ports.

I totally agree here. Also, use a central mod folder to save on space. I found after installing the 3 on the same drive I was tight on space. Using one mod folder was the best thing I have done in a ling time.

Josh

[odizzzzle 99]

agree..  lot of people dont know the can do -mod=C:\Mods\@Cup Vehicles;C:\Mods\@Exile; etc..

[Johnny82 7]

Thanks for all the responses! Fantastic help everyone. If I just copy the server folder and make a new one I would still have the db problem where traders were on the map but there were no traders actually there and my character had the same gear on him as if I was playing on the Tanoa map. How do I get around this? Do I have to start a new db for altis?

Edited April 16, 2017 by Johnny82

[GamersRoost 265]

4 hours ago, Johnny82 said:

Thanks for all the responses! Fantastic help everyone. If I just copy the server folder and make a new one I would still have the db problem where traders were on the map but there were no traders actually there and my character had the same gear on him as if I was playing on the Tanoa map. How do I get around this? Do I have to start a new db for altis?

What I do, is to export the DB  in workbench.

Then I Open the Exported file in Notepad++ and do a find replace "exile" with "exile_newmapname".

I then import the database using workbench 

Then I truncate all the data in the DB  tables.

I change my \@ExileServer\extdb-conf.ini file to make it say the new database name.

 

Here is what it looks like on my end.

 

Edited April 16, 2017 by GamersRoost

[wilderness 91]

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I totally agree here. Also, use a central mod folder to save on space. I found after installing the 3 on the same drive I was tight on space. Using one mod folder was the best thing I have done in a ling time.

ah that's a neat trick, never thought of doing that, thanks for that