The basic setup is the same as for a CoreMedia CAE application. Additionally, a MongoDB installation is required for deploying an Elastic Social enabled application. See the http://bit.ly/cmcc-12-supported-environments document for the supported versions.

Please refer to the MongoDB documentation to install and administrate MongoDB. CoreMedia highly recommends to use Replica Sets for automated failover and distribution of read load. In order to scale write load, CoreMedia suggests to use Sharding. While Replica Sets should be used in any deployment scenario, sharding is optional and can be enabled when load increases.

Figure 3.1. Use of sharding and replication sets