Tips and best practices for globe caches

The information below may be helpful to you as you build and deploy globe caches.

Reusing globe cache directories previously built with ArcGlobe with a globe service based on the same globe document

If you already have a cache that you built using ArcGIS Desktop that you want to reuse with ArcGIS Server, then you need to

1. Register the parent directory of the GlobeCache directory with ArcGIS Server as a server cache directory. For example, if you have your globe data cache residing in the location c:\mycache\deployment\GlobeCache , then you'd register c:\mycache\deployment , as a server cache directory.
2. Modify the properties of the globe service to reference this server cache directory.

Note: If you do not have access to the parent directory of the GlobeCache directory, then you can directly register your GlobeCache directory as a server cache directory and use it with your GlobeService. No additional GlobeCache subdirectory will be created. If you use this workflow, you should make sure that this server cache directory is used exclusively for globe services.

Copying globe cache directories built using ArcGlobe to a globe cache directory on the server

You can also use the Globe Deployment Wizard from the ArcGlobe application to copy caches built using ArcGlobe Desktop to an ArcGIS Server GlobeCache directory. To read more about the wizard, see the topic Using the ArcGlobe Deployment Wizard in the ArcGIS Desktop Help.