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Questions tagged [high-availability]

High availability is an architectural consideration often involving degrees of redundancy to insure availability in case of system or component failure.

High availability is an architectural consideration often involving degrees of redundancy to insure availability in case of system or component failure. Highly available systems are commonly implemented in situations where the risk outweighs the cost.

Best practices such as change control, standardized procedures, and monitoring can also enable high availability.

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Can't change source IP address (to floating ip) for udp outgoing packages

I'm having trouble getting a cluster to work using pacemaker and corosync. Here is my hardware configuration: Network: 192.168.3.0/255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.3.1 node1 (Ubuntu Server 12.04 x64) Static IP: 192.168.3.34 node2 (Ubuntu Server 12.04…
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JBoss EAP 6.2 high availability without HTTP server

i'm looking for some solution to make a Jboss Cluster ( 2 nodes ) in H.A. ( 1 live, 1 backup) but i don't want to use a third element ( machine, service or whatever ). Most configuration I found uses N nodes and 1 http server as dispatcher, but what…
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Solving an asymetric HA Firewall/router

I have an old Linux HA firewall/router setup that never quite worked. As it was never quite put into true production (just testing and demo's), I always had to have one firewall shutdown to make it route. Now we're planning on putting this into…
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Active/Passive Reverse Proxy with nginx

I have two Websocket servers which working with Zookeeper & Curator as Active/Passive, if one server fails then second backend comes alive. I configured it the following way: upstream backend { server 172.31.9.1:8080 max_fails=1 fail_timeout=5s; …
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How to reconnect to the backend with HAProxy

I'm new in working with HAProxy. I couldn't figure out how to make HAProxy to reconnect to backend that was down and started up back again. I have a configuration of two backend servers. When they are running and I start HAProxy all works OK. The…
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IPTABLES for multiple Public IP Addresses

Currently i have two servers Running Debian 7 with HA Active/Passive setup using Pacemaker and Corosync as follows: node1->IP->xx.xx.xx.1 node2->IP->xx.xx.xx.2 VIP(Floating IP) ->xx.xx.xx.3 It is configure with heartbeat for fail-over setup. All…
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High Availability/Failover hardware hookup

I'm learning about clustering and high availability techniques, and stumbled upon an article about configuring a network with a pair of servers, using DRBD for replication and heartbeat for monitoring and failover. The article states that I should…
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Static IP in AWS but with possible Load Balance feature

I am playing a bit with AWS. My goal is to setup infrastructure, which will have static IP on outgoing connections (requirement from payment provider which solution has been implemented in our app) and in the same time I would like to have load…
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Corosync dynamically add node

I have been experimenting with Pacemaker & Corosync for a HA setup. I installed it on two Ubuntu 14.04 Linode's and after a lot of back and forth on outdated config examples and tutorials, managed to get it up and running. This mostly due to the…
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multicast address use in corosync

I'm wondering about the purpose of the multicast address in the corosync messaging software : Since we have to bind each net interface with an IP address and a specific port, and each ring communicate through those IP,I don't understand why we have…
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SonicWALL HA w/ Dual WAN HSRP from two redundant switches

We're adding two SonicWALL NSA 2600 firewalls to our current setup. We currently get two WAN connections from two separate Cisco routers running on the same external subnet with what I believe is HSRP. Right now we run these two connections into two…
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NFS failover fails with stale file handles while migrating resources

Running into a bit of a problem here , I set up two servers ( Centos 6 ) with Glusterfs and a shared directory between them, I have moved the nfs directory to the shared Gluster folder and have created a symlink on both boxes. The machines can talk…
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Failover Cluster + Active/Active HA storage solution

I have a question. I need to build active/active HA storage architecture, but I don't know how achieve this without expensive third party software. I have two Hyper-V hosts, each with iSCSI storage. I can build Hyper-V failover cluster, which gives…
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Is it possible to balance load between multiple Nginx load balancers without using a hardware load balancer?

I plan to balance load between my app servers using a separate Nginx server as a software load balancer. But actually, it's because a load balancer in front of the app servers allows me to update an app server (OS, application, etc.) when I want…
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corosync binding to 127.0.0.1 instead of correct interface

I have the following problem when trying to implement a two-node failover cluster, using Hetzner as the hosting provider. my corosync.conf is as follows: # Please read the corosync.conf.5 manual page compatibility: whitetank totem { version:…
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