[rabbitmq-discuss] HA - queues do not move?

Thu Sep 1 10:54:19 BST 2011

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 15:36, Marek Majkowski <majek04 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 21:31, John Jeffers <john.jeffers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> (I'm new to Rabbit, so please forgive me if this is a dumb question)
>>
>> I followed the instructions at http://www.rabbitmq.com/pacemaker.html
>> to build a two-node HA environment.  My nodes are RabbitMQ 2.5.1 on
>> CentOS 6 64-bit, and I'm using a network share for shared storage
>> instead of DRBD.
>>
>> The nodes failover just fine, and most things seem to be working as
>> expected, however, I've noticed that when I take Node 1 down and it
>> fails over to Node 2, the queues and messages on Node 1 do not move to
>> Node 2.  Is this expected behavior?  I expected that the point of the
>> shared storage would be so that messages would not be lost in the
>> event of a failover, but maybe my expectations are incorrect?
>
> Have you set 'persistenece' flag on the queues and 'durability' flag
> on messages?

Also, you are not using clustering with pacemaker, right?

Cheers,
  Marek