Thanks Shawn. Is there any settings to override the quorum rule? Would you know the rationale behind it?
Ideally, you will want to operate the application even if at least one data center is up. Thanks. Printing e-mails wastes valuable natural resources. Please don't print this message unless it is absolutely necessary. Thank you for thinking green! Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 3, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 6/2/2016 4:06 PM, J316 Services wrote: >> We have two data centers and got two servers at each. At an event of a >> data center failure, with the quorum majority rule - the other >> surviving data center seems to be no use at all and we'll be out of luck. > > You are correct -- the scenario you've described is not fault tolerant. > > When setting up a geographically diverse zookeeper ensemble, there must > be at least three locations, so if there's a complete power or network > failure at one location, the other two can maintain quorum. One > solution I saw discussed was a fifth tie-breaker server in a cloud > service like Amazon EC2, or you could go full-scale with two more > servers at a third datacenter. > > Thanks, > Shawn >
