Funding Cyrus High Availability

[David Lang]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Ken Murchison wrote:

> David Lang wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Ken Murchison wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Question:   Are people looking at this as both redundancy and 
>>> performance, or just redundance?
>> 
>> 
>> for performance we already have murder, what we currently lack is 
>> redundancy. once we have redundancy then the next enhancement is going to 
>> be to teach murder about it so that it can failover to the backup box(s) 
>> as needed, but for now simply having the full data at the backup location 
>> would be so far ahead of where we are now that the need to reconfigure 
>> murder for a failover is realitivly trivial by comparison.
>
>
> Actually what I was really asking, is are people looking for an active-active 
> config and an active-passive config?
>

I think that everyone would love to have the active-active option, the 
problem I have with this is that the active-passive config will solve many 
peoples problems and I believe that is will be far simpler to do so I 
don't want the ideal goal of active-active to end up side tracking the 
huge progress that would be achieved by active-passive.

active-active also requires significantly different choices if the nodes 
are seperated by significant distances. I'd hate to end up with an 
active-active solution that works only with the machines all local and 
still have no solution to the disaster recovery senerio.

David Lang

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