Definitions
The topic is being broken up into three sections:
- Federation (a set of distributed exchanges and queues, seperately managed and wired together)
- Clustering (a set of distributed exchanges and queues managed as a single entity)
- HA / Fault tolarance (the ability for exchanges and queues, clustered, federated, or isolated to replicated important state to a backup (failover partner))
- Failover (the ability for a client to reconnect to the failover partner)
Use Cases
Abstract Use Cases
Design notes
- Old Clustering Design Note
- Cluster Design Note - primary/backup pairing, transaction logging.