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Wintrode_61162
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Nov 22, 2011

Enterprise Manager (EM) HA options with 2 data centers

Say you have 2 EMs, and want to have one at each data center. Is there an easy way to configure them to be a long distance HA pair without a floating/shared address between them? Is it detrimental/pos...
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Kevin_50498
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Jan 27, 2012
I am currently looking at a similar solution.

 

-2 data centers (essentially a tunnel between the boxes)

 

-Statistics on an external MySQL 5.1 box (New in 2.3)

 

-Configurations backed up for all devices on both EMs

 

 

This seems like a sound method for highly available backups.

 

 

I have the same question lingering in my mind though:

 

-Are there any obvious caveats to having a single (GTM/LTM) device being connected to multiple EM devices?

 

 

Thanks,

 

--Kevin