Spaceman1984 commented on a change in pull request #223: URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/223#discussion_r662091009
########## File path: source/adminguide/reliability.rst ########## @@ -61,6 +61,84 @@ still available but the system VMs will not be able to contact the management server. +Multiple Management Servers Support on agents +--------------------------------------------- + +In a Cloudstack environment with multiple management servers, an agent can be +configured, based on an algorithm, to which management server to connect to. +This can be useful as an internal loadbalancer or for high availability. +An administrator is responsible for setting the list of management servers and +choosing a sorting algorithm using global settings. +The management server is responsible for propagating the settings to the +connected agents. + +Examples of an agent includes, the process responsible for communication to the Review comment: I am trying to describe what I mean by the word "agent". Cloudstack has a few things that are called as such. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cloudstack.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org