[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq-ha-test setup

Fri Sep 2 18:41:50 BST 2011

Folks,

I ran across the thread about a month ago, including the message at <http://lists.rabbitmq.com/pipermail/rabbitmq-discuss/2011-July/014246.html>, and I had some questions about where this has issue has gone since.  I've read the documentation on mirrored queues (<http://www.rabbitmq.com/ha.html>) and on the active/passive failover solution (<http://www.rabbitmq.com/pacemaker.html>), and I was hoping that there might be a third option available?

If you want to talk about mirroring queues across sets of servers, then it would seem to me that for scalability purposes, you should be able to easily stripe across those mirrors.  In Rabbit parlance, that would seem to be a simple round-robin exchange that distributes incoming queues to be created among one or more mirroring exchanges.

Mirroring and then striping the mirrors seems to be an obvious solution to this problem.  So, what am I missing?  Is there other documentation that I have not yet read?  Any pointers or discussion that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Brad Knowles <bknowles at ihiji.com>