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dschnaider
PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2003 7:50 am    Post subject: High Availability of Websphere MQ! Reply with quote

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Joined: 06 Feb 2002
Posts: 5

Hi,

I would like to use Websphere MQ as mine infrastructure for messaging (Pub/Sub - using supportPack).
High availability is very important in the solution (90% availability at least) and it shouldn't depend on special hardware requirments and/or software for HA.


N - Computers (N > 1) in the same LAN. Different OS.


How can I build such a configuration with MQ only?
If I have two Websphere MQ's in two sepparate machine and one of them fails - can I configure the second one to have an event as a result of the failure?
What happen with subscribers of failed MQ node?
Is it possible to build Active/Active or Active/Passive configuration without additional hardware/software?
How do I do it?

I already read alot of documentation about this subject, but it seems that people solve it with special hardware/software.

Thanks,
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nyey
PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 5:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Posts: 57

MQ does not provide HA feature. There is a feature (load balance through clustering), which is often confused with HA.

If you want to have active/active or active/passive, then some hardware is needed (such as MSCS on widowns, HACMP on AIX)...

nyey
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jefflowrey
PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 6:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Joined: 16 Oct 2002
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90% availability over one year means you are willing to accept up to roughly 40 days of down time. Over one day it means you are willing to accept up to about three hours of down time.

Clustering will ensure that new messages get processed in the event of a queue manager failure, but messages already on that queue manager will not be processed until that queue manager is running again.

If you need to guarantee that *every* message gets processed on time, you need some sort of "shared disk". This typically requires (as you say) "special hardware".

What are the requirements for availability you have? How important are they? If they are less important than the cost to fulfill them, they are not very required.
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