| Your EC2 suggestion sounds reasonable. If your deployment is able to form a local quorum most of the time, then you would be able to get a quorum of acks most of the time.
One concern is that the EC2 replica might lag behind badly, which may force the leader to either slow down or to drop the connection to the EC2 follower, assuming that EC2 server is not the leader itself.
It might not be a possibility for you, but Ideally, you could have three power sources, and have three sets of servers. We could then tolerate the failure of one power source with the mechanisms we have currently implemented.
-Flavio
On Jul 14, 2010, at 11:16 PM, Sergei Babovich wrote: Thanks, Flavio, Yep... I see. This is a problem. Any better idea? As an alternative option we could probably consider running single ZK node on EC2 - only in order to handle this specific case. Does it make sense to you? Is it feasible? Would it result in considerable performance impact due to network latency? I hope that at least in theory since quorum can be reached without ack from EC2 node performance impact might be manageable. Regards, Sergei On 07/14/2010 04:52 PM, Flavio Junqueira wrote: Hi Sergei, I'm not sure what the implementation of QuorumVerifier you
have in mind would look like to make your setting work. Even if you
don't have partitions, variation in message delays can cause
inconsistencies in your ZooKeeper cluster. Keep in mind that we make
the assumption that quorums intersect.
-Flavio
On Jul 14, 2010, at 9:43 PM, Sergei Babovich wrote:
Hi,
We are currently evaluating use of ZK in our infrastructure. In our
setup we have a set of servers running from two different power feeds.
If one power feed goes away so does half of the servers. This makes
problematic to configure ZK ensemble that would tolerate such outage.
The network partitioning is not an issue in our case. The only solution
I come up with so far is to provide custom QuorumVerifier that will add
a little premium in case if all servers in the quorum set are from the
same group. Basically if we have only half of votes but all of them
belong to the same group then we decide to have a quorum.
Any ideas or better solutions are very appreciated. Sorry if this has
been already discussed/answered.
Regards,
Sergei
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