> -----Original Message----- > From: Rothkin, Steve (NY81) [mailto:steve.roth...@honeywell.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 11:37 AM > To: users@qpid.apache.org > Subject: RE: Queue mirroring with message grouping and clustering on > Windows > > > To fill in a little more about "clients can connect to any of the > > brokers", in the active- passive mode, clients connect to a virtual > > IP address that gets moved around to the current primary broker (this > > is one of the things driven by the resource manager). If the primary > > crashes (or its node goes down, etc.) the virtual IP would be moved > > to wherever the newly chosen primary is - clients would need to > reconnect, but always to the same IP. > > But I wouldn't be able to spread the load by having some clients connect to a > different node. All of the nodes in the cluster would have to be individually > sized to be capable of handling the maximum traffic.
Right. You can use federation to spread the load. A federated set of clusters gives fault tolerance and the ability to spread the load/scale. -Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@qpid.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@qpid.apache.org
