On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Gustavo Niemeyer <gust...@niemeyer.net>wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:31 AM, John Arbash Meinel
> <j...@arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> > I would probably avoid putting such an emphasis on "any machine can be
> > a manager machine". But that is my personal opinion. (If you want HA
> > you probably want it on dedicated nodes.)
>
> Resource waste holds juju back for the small users. Being able to
> share a state server with other resources does sound attractive from
> that perspective. It may be the difference between running 3 machines
> or 6.


If you only have 3 machines, do you really need HA from juju? You don't
have HA from your machines that are actually *running your service*.


> > I would probably also remove the machine if the only thing on it was
> > the management. Certainly that is how people want us to do "juju
> > remove-unit".
>
> If there are other units in the same machine, we should definitely not
> remove the machine on remove-unit. The principle sounds the same with
> state servers.
>
> > The main problem with this is that it feels slightly too easy to add
> > just 1 machine and then not actually have HA (mongo stops allowing
> > writes if you have a 2-node cluster and lose one, right?)
>
> +1
>

Yeah, same here. I still think we need a "turn on HA mode" command that'll
bring you to 3 servers.  It doesn't have to be the swiss army knife that we
said before... just something to go from non-HA to valid HA environment.
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