There are two main configuration files:

In a cloud configuration, server templates give cloud the flexibility to change configurations at the launch time. Acpmdconfig.xml contains the configurations that are node specific. When the Process Management Daemon (PMD) starts up, it reads these configurations first and exposes them to the process environment variable list.

The acserverconfig.xml file contains other cluster and node configuration parameters, which specify the host names, port numbers, volume names, and server templates to be used by the nodes. The following sections elaborate on these configuration files.