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| sdrazi |
 Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:25 am Post subject: MQ High Availability Setup in Azure |
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Apprentice
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Hello
We have a high availability setup on premise for websphere MQ using microsoft failover cluster and it has worked pretty well for us over the years.
We want to migrate this setup over to Azure so wanted to check what should be our approach.
Multi Instance Queue manager setup is fairly well documented in some github documetation but because of the way clients connect to our MQ we cannot have IP address changes.
I havent found any documentation as it relates MQ setup in High Availability mode maintaining IP address on the MQ Queue Manager.
Any help/guidance is appreciated.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:07 am Post subject: |
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Grand High Poobah
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How do you have low availability on a cloud based solution? Isn't one of the key benefits that the cloud container restarts on failure?
Or is Azure another quality MSoft product? 
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| sdrazi |
| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:04 am Post subject: |
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Nice question  . We had the same assumption when we were starting on our cloud journey.
We are going for IaaS which means Microsoft give 99.9% uptime SLA on the VM itself.
For production workloads Microsoft recommends a clustered environment
a. to get 99.95% uptime and
b. most importantly to guard against application/software issues sitting on the VM where HA setup gives additional redundancy. |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:13 am Post subject: |
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Grand High Poobah
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| sdrazi wrote: |
| For production workloads Microsoft recommends a clustered environment |
I bet they mean using MSCS and buying more Azure resource to do it.
| sdrazi wrote: |
| I havent found any documentation as it relates MQ setup in High Availability mode maintaining IP address on the MQ Queue Manager. |
Because it doesn't. The assumption of MI is that clients are using a connection list and automatic reconnect to go from one queue manager to the other in the event of a failover. If you can't change the clients (as you intimate) then this won't work for you.
I'd also be impressed if you could get 99.95% uptime from an MI solution.
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| sdrazi |
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Yeah some form of clustering in Azure is what we are going to try but wanted to check if anyone has done it.
We havent used the Multi Instance concept yet though its an interesting one. In the context of this migration effort the client changes werent baked in so not an option. |
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| mvic |
| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 3:51 pm Post subject: Re: MQ High Availability Setup in Azure |
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Jedi
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| sdrazi wrote: |
We have a high availability setup on premise for websphere MQ using microsoft failover cluster and it has worked pretty well for us over the years.
We want to migrate this setup over to Azure so wanted to check what should be our approach. |
I am sorry if you have to reinvent a tried and tested system.
Doesn't MS provide a similar capability to the one you have already?
Yes I bet it costs $$$ but you (should) get value for that money.
Also, in the very newest 9.0.x releases of MQ there are HA RDQMs and DR RDQMs, which might be of interest (Linux only though, I think). |
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| rammer |
| Posted: Thu May 31, 2018 9:17 am Post subject: |
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Hi - Did you ever resolve a solution in Azure?, I am starting to look in AWS (request of client) but at moment I dont have a lot of knowledge on AWS, we do have AWS people though but there may be a disconnect between my understanding and theres...
From what I understand looking at using Kubernetes Container and wanting HA across AZ's.... trying to find some links that may help / discuss this even at a high level. |
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