I see what you mean by the implicit HA.Thanks Guozhang.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Prakash, > > Actually the MM is HA such that it used a consumer group fetching data from > the source DC and another producer pushing them to the destination DC. So > suppose there are two instances of MM as in your case, each of the instance > will get half of the traffic mirroring to the other DC since they have > consumers in the same group. When one of them dies, the load balance will > automatically moves all its traffic to the other instance. > > Guozhang > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Prakash Gowri Shankor < > prakash.shan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've looked at the documentation for mirrormaker. It doesnt appear that > > there is a notion of HA ( high availability ) for the mirrormaker tool > > itself. Ideally, I would like to have some topics flowing to another > > datacenter with a 2 node mirrormaker in between, where one mirrormaker is > > always active and the other passive until it needs to become primary. > The > > transfer from passive to active also needs to happen with offset > awareness > > ( ie previously written topic offset should be picked up by the new > > primary) . Is anything like this planned in future releases ? > > > > Thanks, > > Prakash > > > > > > -- > -- Guozhang >
