You are here: Administrator's Guide > Performing an Installation > Distributed/Fault Tolerant Installation > Installing a Scalable, Fault-Tolerant FME Server
Installing a Scalable, Fault-Tolerant FME Server
Before installing FME Server for fault tolerance, make sure you have:
- Read and understood Planning an FME Server Installation, including Planning for Fault Tolerance.
- Provided the prerequisites in Before Installation.
To perform an installation for fault tolerance:
- Obtain the Installer
- Install FME Server on all machines you have allocated for your fault tolerant architecture.
- Configure the FME Server Database on your database server.
- Set Up the Load Balancer and Configure with FME Server to route traffic between each FME Server instance you installed.
- Request and Install a License.
What's Next?
Optimize: You can scale-up your system by:
- Increasing the number of FME Engines that run on machines that are part of your FME Server deployment.
- Adding FME Engines on additional machines.
For more information, see Planning for Scalability and Performance.