Re: [infinispan-dev] Cross-site clustering

I like Bela's configuration. Maybe take it a step further and allow a default backup configuration for all sites? FWIW, here's my config. I get warnings about looping back to the site, but it seems to work. <global> <sites local="${net.beaumaris.site.local:site1}"> <site name="${net.beaumaris.site.site01:site1}"/> <site name="${net.beaumaris.site.site02:site2}"/> <site name="${net.beaumaris.site.site03:site3}"/> </sites> . <default> <sites> <backups> <backup site="${net.beaumaris.site.site01:site1}" strategy="ASYNC"/> <backup site="${net.beaumaris.site.site02:site2}" strategy="ASYNC"/> <backup site="${net.beaumaris.site.site03:site3}" strategy="ASYNC"/> </backups> </sites> Erik From: infinispan-dev-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org [mailto:infinispan-dev-bounces@lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Mircea Markus Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 8:36 AM To: infinispan -Dev List Subject: Re: [infinispan-dev] Cross-site clustering On 21 Sep 2012, at 15:13, Bela Ban wrote: Hi Mircea, I'm in the process of setting up the Infinispan GUI demo across 3 data centers, and I ran into an issue with the Infinispan config file. Not really a bug, but something that could be improved. Currently, the Infinispan config (let's call it infinispan.xml) defines the sites and their backup sites and refers to the local JGroups cluster config file (jgroups.xml). The latter has a RELAY2 protocol at the top of its stack which points to the relay configuration (relay2.xml), which defines the sites and how they connect to each other. Finally, there's a jgroups-relay2.xml file (referred to from relay2.xml) which defines the global bridge, connecting all 3 sites. OK, so that 4 config files and I don't see how to reduce them. However... currently infinispan.xml is *site-specific*, ie. we need 1 infinispan.xml for LON, 1 for SFO and 1 for NYC. The 3 JGroups config files (jgroups.xml, relay2.xml and relay2-bridge.xml) are *not* site-specific, ie. they can be used in any site, provided that we set a few system properties, such as cluster-specific mcast address and port, and site name (relay2.xml). I believe cross-site clustering would benefit from making infinispan.xml symmetric as well, that is, we could use it in any site. To do this, I suggest the following: #1 Sites config: <sites local="LON"> <site name="SFO"/> <site name="NYC"/> <site name="LON"/> </sites> Nothing needs to be changed here, except to parameterize local: <sites local="${SITE:LON}"...>. A node in a given site can then be started using -DSITE=LON. This could also be used for relay2.xml. - Question-1: why do we need to list the sites above ? We're not defining any config for those sites, so I don't see why this is needed. yes, defining these sites is not required. The only thing that's needed is <sites local="LON"> #2 Backups config: <namedCache name="users"> <sites> <backups> <backup site="NYC" backupFailurePolicy="WARN" strategy="SYNC" timeout="12000"/> <backup site="SFO" backupFailurePolicy="IGNORE" strategy="ASYNC"/> </backups> </sites> </namedCache> This is *asymmetric*. IMO, a better config would be: <global> <sites> <localSite="${site:LON}" backupSites="${backup-sites:SFO,NYC}" /> This would require configuring "localSite" for all caches in the system. Unless added to the default cache and forbid an override. I'd prefer to keep it in the global, but don't really have a strong feeling about it. <backups> <backup site="NYC" backupFailurePolicy="WARN" strategy="SYNC" timeout="12000"/> <backup site="SFO" backupFailurePolicy="IGNORE" strategy="ASYNC"/> <backup site="LON" backupFailurePolicy="IGNORE" strategy="ASYNC"/> </backups> </sites> </global> For me the above seems harder to read than the one currently in use, but otoh simplifying the config would be something nice. What do other think? Erik? Here, we define global backup strategies and the local site. Both of them can be parameterized, e.g. we start up nodes in - LON: -Dsite=LON -DbackupSites="SFO,NYC" - SFO: -Dsite=SFO -DbackupSites=NYC - NYC: -Dsite=NYC -DbackupSites= // no backups This would allow us to have only 1 infinispan.xml, regardless of the site in which it is used. Of course, since backup strageties are globally defined, if people wanted different backup strategies per site (or per named cache), they could still copy infinispan.xml and modify it... WDYT ? -- Bela Ban, JGroups lead (http://www.jgroups.org) _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list infinispan-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev Cheers, -- Mircea Markus Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)