Active-Active Setup

All,

My site is going from an Active-Passive to an Active-Active setup.  While there is a guide on SW.com, it's very simplistic and I feel not complete.  Does anyone know of any videos/classes that would help in laying out the process to ensure a smooth and painless transition?

TIA.

Todd

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  •    has mentioned most of the points. I have had my own share of problems in the past with Active-Active setup

    Firstly why do we need an Active-Active setup ? If its mainly for Disaster Recovery then based on my experience I would go for a parallel setup altogether. 

    1. Build a like to like setup, downside is definitely SolarWinds license cost plus operational cost (but then this can be controlled based on what sort of infrastructure you host your SolarWinds on), but then as well talk to SolarWinds about the licensing cost if your plan is to use the other setup only during Disaster Recovery.

    2. There are several ways in which you can control your secondary environment, I am sure we have some drawbacks as it wont be completely automated but we can come online in less than 30 to 60 mins with a parallel setup OR even in 60 seconds Slight smile

    3. I had the exact same setup Production and DR which is like to like, when we onboard any configuration on Production I migrate the same configuration onto DR.

    4. Do we need to poll the devices in parallel thats totally upto you based on your recovery time, in my case I dont poll the devices from both my environments rather I keep the devices in unmanaged state on the DR, but I make sure they are in both places Prod and DR and bring them online only when Prod is affected.

    5. At times I as well poll it from both Production and DR, once in a month to make sure everything is intact, but then i make sure my alert actions are stopped on DR (which can anyways be  switched ON in a second when required).

    6. If its on cloud to save operational cost we can as well shutdown our DR VM's and we can as well have a smaller DB as its not always polling the devices from DR. 

    7. As I mentioned in the points above, how do you want it to be ? Main factors that you need to consider is Cost, Recovery Time and Restoration Time. But its definitely easier to maintain and manage a parallel setup.

    Hope this helps.   

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  •    has mentioned most of the points. I have had my own share of problems in the past with Active-Active setup

    Firstly why do we need an Active-Active setup ? If its mainly for Disaster Recovery then based on my experience I would go for a parallel setup altogether. 

    1. Build a like to like setup, downside is definitely SolarWinds license cost plus operational cost (but then this can be controlled based on what sort of infrastructure you host your SolarWinds on), but then as well talk to SolarWinds about the licensing cost if your plan is to use the other setup only during Disaster Recovery.

    2. There are several ways in which you can control your secondary environment, I am sure we have some drawbacks as it wont be completely automated but we can come online in less than 30 to 60 mins with a parallel setup OR even in 60 seconds Slight smile

    3. I had the exact same setup Production and DR which is like to like, when we onboard any configuration on Production I migrate the same configuration onto DR.

    4. Do we need to poll the devices in parallel thats totally upto you based on your recovery time, in my case I dont poll the devices from both my environments rather I keep the devices in unmanaged state on the DR, but I make sure they are in both places Prod and DR and bring them online only when Prod is affected.

    5. At times I as well poll it from both Production and DR, once in a month to make sure everything is intact, but then i make sure my alert actions are stopped on DR (which can anyways be  switched ON in a second when required).

    6. If its on cloud to save operational cost we can as well shutdown our DR VM's and we can as well have a smaller DB as its not always polling the devices from DR. 

    7. As I mentioned in the points above, how do you want it to be ? Main factors that you need to consider is Cost, Recovery Time and Restoration Time. But its definitely easier to maintain and manage a parallel setup.

    Hope this helps.   

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