Hi Zsolt,
  Sorry to disappoint but there isnt any way of running zookeeper on 2
machines and calling it reliable. You can run a set of 2 machines for
a quorum of 3 but if one of the machine goes down then zookeeper goes
down. Also, a data center of 2 has issues since which ever datacenter
you place the max part of the quorum in, in case of death will caiuse
the ZK cluster to fail.  I am assuming you are talking about ZK cross
data center.

thanks
mahadev

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Zsolt Beothy-Elo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> in our product we currently implement to use ZooKeeper in conjunction with 
> CXF to dynamically manage available services and endpoints. Unfortunately one 
> of our customers is not very happy of having to run a minimum of three 
> ZooKeeper server instances to ensure fail over. The customer has two data 
> centers in different locations where data and applications are replicated and 
> some big-ip appliance in front of the data centers. If one data center fails 
> everything must still be operable. So he would prefer to only have two  
> instances one in each data center. I would be grateful for some advise how to 
> best cope with these contradicting requirements.
>
> Cheers,
> Zsolt Beothy-Elo

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