The section you mention below is for Active-Passive. I don't see anything about Active-Active (clients can connect to any of the brokers) -- I thought I saw that somewhere in the Qpid documentation, but its not in the manual you linked to below. Is Active-Active not available?
> -----Original Message----- > > > From: Steve Huston [mailto:shus...@riverace.com] > > > > I'm considering a Qpid.22 implementation under MS Windows for > > > > message queueing. In the future we might go to a mixed > > > > environment with both Windows and Linux computers. > > > > For fault tolerance, I want the queues to be mirrored across 2 to > > > > 3 computers which are connected by high speed LAN. Each queue will > > > > have multiple consumers on different computers (including some NOT > > > > hosting the queue), so I also need to use the message grouping > > > > feature to ensure that messages from a single source are not > > > > processed > > out of order. > > > > > > Ok. > > > > > > > 1) Is clustering required to do this (on RabbitMQ it is, but RabbitMQ > > appears > > > > to not support message grouping yet)? > > > > > > For mirroring across a set of nodes for FT, yes. > > > > > > > 2) What is required to use clustering on Windows (and is it even > > available)? > > > > So far I've read that Corosync is required for clustering and in > > > > another place (a few years old) I read that Corosync isn't ported > > > > to/doesn't build on Windows. > > > > > > The new HA module in Qpid requires integration with a resource > > > manager; on Linux this is rgmanager (corosync is involved to manage > > > the cluster itself, but it's not directly involved with Qpid). > > > Currently there is no integration with a resource manager on Windows > > > clusters. It's probably not a gigantic amount of work to get it > > > there, but it's > > work that is needed. > > > > If there is a mix of linux and windows computers hosting the queues, > > do they need to use the same (or a compatible) resource manager? > > Yes, the brokers participating in the cluster do need to use the same > resource manager. > > > As a way of getting around the need for a resource manager on Windows, > > if I made a cluster of linux machines (or linux VMs running under > > Windows) to host the mirrored queues would it then be ok/supported to > > have windows clients (NOT part of the cluster) to write to and read from > > the queues? > > Absolutely. > > > If I wanted to try to do the windows resource manager implemtentation > > (assuming my boss would allow it, and given that I have zero > > experience developing within Qpid), is there existing documentation > > that makes it clear (from the Qpid point of view) what I need to add > > to the code. If so, pointers to where to look would be helpful. > > You wouldn't necessarily need to add anything to Qpid - my understanding is > that it's > more of a Windows scripting/integration issue and not so much a Qpid coding > issue. You > can check this book: > http://qpid.apache.org/releases/qpid-0.22/cpp-broker/book/chapter-ha.html > Section 1.11.10 has the info to get you going. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@qpid.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@qpid.apache.org
