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  • 1.  IBM MQ on the AWS Cloud - Quick Start

    Posted Wed April 22, 2020 09:33 AM
    Hello everyone,

    I am using the IBM MQ on the AWS Cloud - Quick Start based on this deployment guide: https://aws-quickstart.s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-ibm-mq/doc/ibm-mq-on-the-aws-cloud.pdf.

    From what I can see, it creates an Auto scaling group with 1 desired instance at all time, and if one fails, another one will get it's place.
    My question is: Is there a way to edit this temple so I could keep 2 instances up, which the second one will be listening as passive site? When I try to scale up another instance, the second one will always fail, cause I guess it is trying to be the active one.
    I want to do it so save time on failovers.

    Thanks for you help!

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  • 2.  RE: IBM MQ on the AWS Cloud - Quick Start

    Posted Thu April 23, 2020 02:22 AM
    Hello,

    If you are looking for a active/passive setup, the only option that you might have in a Kubernetes environment is multi-instance queue managers (MIQM):
    https://developer.ibm.com/recipes/tutorials/architecting-messaging-solutions-in-aws-cloud-using-ibm-mq/#r_step12
    It is however possible to create a cluster of queue managers (all independently) also described in the link.

    Please note the following limitation for MIQM on AWS:
    https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-mq-considerations-efs-aws

    You might get some information on how to set it up here
    https://blogs.perficient.com/2017/04/20/ibm-mq-and-iib-ha-architectures-using-aws/


    HA provided by AWS is discussed here
    https://community.ibm.com/community/user/imwuc/blogs/connor-smith/2018/11/26/ibm-mq-high-availability-in-aws

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    Pierre Richelle
    IBM Hybrid Cloud Integration Specialist
    IBM
    brussels
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  • 3.  RE: IBM MQ on the AWS Cloud - Quick Start

    Posted Thu April 23, 2020 04:10 AM

    Hello Pierre, thank you for your quick response! 

    I will review everything you have provided.



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