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pcelari
PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 10:06 am Post subject: Isn't RDQM too wasteful? Reply with quote

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Greeting...

I just read about RDQM and wonder what advantage it brings comparing to multi-instance QMgr. While the single storage in multi-instance qmgr can be guaranteed to be high available through replications behind the scene, the replication of data among three instances in RDQM is heavy.

and because of the floating IP based fail-over, each host has to dedicate a NIC to each qmgr.

Isn't this way too wasteful? and brings hardly any more benefit comparing to multi-instance QM? Any insight would be appreciated.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 11:05 am Post subject: Reply with quote

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Wasteful of what? “Heavy” of what? Are NICs suddenly a valuable resource?

Offer (recommend) a better scenario if you find this one lacking?
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pcelari
PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 12:40 pm Post subject: Reply with quote

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… despite that NICs being dirt cheap, if you have to use three hosts (VMs) while you can afford losing a max of one. That doesn't sound quite frugal.

I setup multi-instance QMgrs since it was first introduced, never had an outage, not even when our DCs were moved. So I want to know if there is a solid rationale to go RDMQ.

not mean to argue though, just asking for insight beyond what I could see under my very limited knowledge and experience.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 1:30 pm Post subject: Reply with quote

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Really, you’ve never had an outage? Wow, you’re the one.

I guess I’m a bit put off by your presumption that MI satisfies all business requirements, that it’s on us to defend our choices otherwise.

An an exercise, select one of the alternates, and compare and contrast their cost/benefits. Then bring us your studied results.
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Hi pcelari. RDQM is a MQ product feature to improve QoS. Other MQ QoS related features need to be reviewed against your requirements for cost / effort / complexity / resource usage / supportability / recovery time objectives and the value attached to data QoS.

As well as RDQM, MIQM and MQ Clustering, you should also look at OS HA features that are supported by MQ, such as zOS Sysplex, AIX PowerHA, Windows MSCS. We can't tell you the best choice in your situation, but are happy to advise based on our experiences.
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pcelari
PostPosted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 9:03 am Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thanks much for sharing your opinions. The fact that someone is passionate about the choice seems to indicate RDMQ is a solid solution in certain requirement.
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… it’s on us to defend our choices otherwise...


... but there isn't a need to defend as it wasn't being attacked, just asking to share a good reason for the choice.

looks like this discussion can conclude now.
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I believe the most pressing argument for RDQM is the availability of storage.
The storage in RDQM is replicated, which means that if QM1 goes down on host 1 it is still available on host 2. MIMQ has a single point of failure which is its storage. If the storage goes bye bye, so does your queue manager, including the stand-by...
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