Hello everyone, Thanks a lot for your replies. We would have to go with multiple queue managers since this is a migration and would want minimal changes to the existing applications
Bill, we are looking at a similar HACMP solution (2 node cluster). Could you tell me what are the specs of the Unix nodes in your environment? Thanks WS --- Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I currently host 3 production queue managers on one > AIX box, and if > marketing does its job, I may soon add one more. If > I had my way, two of > those queue mangers would become one. that is > because even though they do > provide different services, they are both for the > same industry. Plus one > of them is rather "dinky" that is to say it has one > client connection and > four customer queues (two of them are alias > definitions). I would love to > host those queues and connections on another > existing queue manager to > conserve resources, and simplify my monitoring and > admin tasks. > > The reason we don't do that is largely political. > Operations feels very > strongly that the services need to be separate. And > because that is the way > things were done before I started here two years > ago, they won that > argument. Fine with me really, I don't have a huge > problem with it. > > I do understand operations point of view. If I host > two separate services > on one queue manager and then loose that queue > manager, I just lost two > services not one. My counter point is that we have > fairly robust redundancy > via HACMP. In the past two years, my unplanned > outages have been so low it > makes me want to throw a party. So why be paranoid > about combining multiple > services on one queue manager? The few outages we > have had were tied to > system resources being stretched to far. Duh, we are > running multiple queue > managers on box. > > There is no clear cut answer to your problem, but if > it is possible to host > multiple services on one queue manager, I say go for > it. > > > > Bill Anderson > SITA Atlanta, GA > Standard Messaging Engineering > WebSphere MQ Service Owner > 770-303-3503 (office) > 404-915-3190 (cell) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mconnect.aero/ > > > > W Samuel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CO.UK> cc: > Sent by: MQSeries > Subject: Re: Max no. of qmgrs > List > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > N.AC.AT> > > > 05/04/2004 11:01 > AM > Please respond to > MQSeries List > > > > > > > Hello, > > Thanks David, Peter for your replies. > > In our landscape we have around 6 to 7 queue > managers > running on separate Unix systems. Now, the plan is > to > move all these qmgrs to a single AIX server > > This has advantages of lower license costs. > > Our team;s task is to arrive at the specs for such a > server. And the solution should be scalable to have > more queue managers ... > > Any pointers as to how we go about this? > Is this is a reasonable proposition ? > > Thanks > WS > > > > > > --- "David C. Partridge" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There > probably > is such a limit, and this will > > primarily be determined by > > disk space, and shared resources such as > semaphores > > and open file limits and > > the like. > > > > However the return question I have is how many are > > you contemplating, and > > why do you want to host many QMs on the same box? > > > > Far better to have a few QMs with '000s of queues > > than many QMs with a few > > queues each. > > > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: MQSeries List > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of W > > Samuel > > Sent: 04 May 2004 14:52 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Max no. of qmgrs > > > > > > Hello, > > > > Is there a limit on the max number of queue > managers > > that can run on a single host ? > > > > > > Regards > > WS > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" > > your friends today! 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