Re: Need advice on building a Cyrus IMAP cluster

2009-08-13 Thread Dave McMurtrie
Michael Sims wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Dave McMurtrie wrote: >> As of Cyrus 2.3, the code supports the notion of application-level >> replication. It's near real-time replication of all the application >> data, but one copy of the data isn't live. This is more of an >> active/passive solution, since

Re: Need advice on building a Cyrus IMAP cluster

2009-08-12 Thread Vincent Fox
Michael Sims wrote: Quick question on this. If I setup an active/passive cluster and put the mail spool AND all of the application data on a SAN that both nodes have access to (not simultaneously, of course), doesn't that bypass the need for using "mupdate_config: replicated"? Thanks... Th

RE: Need advice on building a Cyrus IMAP cluster

2009-08-12 Thread Michael Sims
Hi Dave, Dave McMurtrie wrote: > As of Cyrus 2.3, the code supports the notion of application-level > replication. It's near real-time replication of all the application > data, but one copy of the data isn't live. This is more of an > active/passive solution, since you have to do something to m

Re: Need advice on building a Cyrus IMAP cluster

2009-08-04 Thread Dave McMurtrie
Michael Sims wrote: > Overall, my general feeling is that active/active is still a bit too > bleeding edge for me to recommend it to my boss. Bleeding edge? VMS had this figured out ages ago :) > I know that it has been > done, but it seems to be relatively uncommon. I might try to toy around

RE: Need advice on building a Cyrus IMAP cluster

2009-08-04 Thread Michael Sims
Hi Dave, Thanks for taking the time to respond. Dave McMurtrie wrote: > When I worked at the University of Pittsburgh, we set up a 4-node, > active/active Cyrus IMAP cluster. It ran on Sun v440 servers running > Solaris 8 using Veritas Cluster Filesystem. If you need additional > details about

Re: Need advice on building a Cyrus IMAP cluster

2009-08-03 Thread Dave McMurtrie
Dave McMurtrie wrote: > Though I have no experience with it, I seem to recall that someone > attempted to use GFS with an active/active Cyrus cluster and it was a > disaster. It was mentioned either on info-cyrus or in the Cyrus wiki. > If google doesn't help you find this, I can try to rememb

Re: Need advice on building a Cyrus IMAP cluster

2009-08-03 Thread Dave McMurtrie
Michael Sims wrote: ...snipped... > So, here are my questions for anyone who can help me: > > (1) Is the goal of implementing an active/active Cyrus cluster using shared > storage and a shared file system a realistic one? Yes. It has been done successfully. > (2) If so, what recommendations d

Need advice on building a Cyrus IMAP cluster

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Sims
Hi, My company has been a happy user of Cyrus IMAP for over 6 years now. But our existing email infrastructure is starting to age a bit and I've been assigned the task of upgrading it. Although we only have about 5,000 or so accounts, we have experienced some performance issues over the years (f