Dario, I believe that you're looking for TribeNodes http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/modules-tribe.html
ES is not built to consistently cluster across DC's / larger network lags. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Dario Rossi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I've the following problem: our application publishes content to an > Elasticsearch cluster. We use local data less node for querying > elasticsearch then, so we don't use HTTP REST and the local nodes are the > loadbalancer. Now they came with the requirement of having the cluster > replicated to another data center too (and in the future maybe another > too... ) for resilience. > > At the very beginning we thought of having one large cluster that goes > across data centers (crazy). This solution has the following problems: > > - The cluster has the split-brain problem (!) > - The client data less node will try to do requests across different data > centers (is there a solution to this???). I can't find a way to avoid this. > We don't want this to happen because of a) latency and b) firewalling > issues. > > So we started to think that this solution is not really viable. So we > thought of having one cluster per data center, which seems more sensible. > But then here we have the problem that we must publish data to all clusters > and, if one fails, we have no means of rolling back (unless we try to set > up a complicated version based rollback system). I find this very > complicated and hard to maintain, although can be somewhat doable. > > My biggest problem is that we have to keep the data centers in the same > state at any time, so that if one goes down, we can readily switch to the > other. > > Any ideas, or can you recommend some support to help use deal with this? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/5424a274-3f6b-4c12-9fe6-621e04f87a8d%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAP8axnDW4GCDnnzwA%2BcyR%2BN4g-26VV4CZ-ZW6SDGgxFL75qy%2Bw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
