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BZM's avatar
BZM
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Feb 28, 2014

Balancing Methods and Priority Groups

Here's a scenario: In a situation with a two members pool for which it'd be desirable to maintain all requests to a primary system, and only fall back to a secondary in the event that the primary goe...
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Feb 28, 2014

You could use PGA combined with the manual resume option on the primary node health monitor, but you'd be in a bad spot if the second node failed hard after going active.

 

Chris

 

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    BZM
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    Feb 28, 2014
    I appreciate the feedback on that and understand the potential problem there. I'll check out the option for manual resume, as well.
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    Christopher_Boo
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    Feb 28, 2014
    If you have a good monitor and alerting, and the app is stable, I'm sure manual resume will probably be sufficient. You could even add a 3rd node in another PG if there is any concern. Chris