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Active Standby Nodes on Community Edition? — Vertica Forum

Active Standby Nodes on Community Edition?

Hello.

Can someone tell me if I can deploy an Active Standby Node with community edition? I am planning a new 8.1 install (upgrading from 7.0) and I would like to use this feature.

Thanks.
Paulc

Answers

  • I should clarify - 3 node cluster, so the active standby would be the 4th.

    Thanks.

  • drlovedrlove Employee
    edited July 2017

    Vertica Community Edition license has a 3-node limit so as long as you only have 3 nodes up and running at a time it should work.

  • Great, thanks.

  • Jim_KnicelyJim_Knicely - Select Field - Administrator
    edited July 2017

    From my understanding, when using a Vertica CE licence, admintools will not let you create a database on more than three nodes, or add a node to a database that already has 3 nodes.

    So, if you try to create a database on 4 nodes, you get this error:

    Desired database node count (4) exceeds license max node count (3)

    If you try to add a 4th node, you'll get this error:

    ROLLBACK 2382: Cannot create another node. The current license permits 3 node(s) and the database catalog already contains 3 node(s)

    What if 2 nodes are up and one is down and already a stand by?

    [dbadmin@localhost ~]$ vsql -c "select node_name, node_state, node_type from nodes order by node_name;"
        node_name     | node_state | node_type
    ------------------+------------+-----------
     v_test2_node0001 | UP         | PERMANENT
     v_test2_node0002 | UP         | PERMANENT
     v_test2_node0003 | DOWN       | STANDBY
    (3 rows)
    
    [dbadmin@localhost ~]$ admintools -t db_add_node -s 192.168.56.105 -d test2
                    Verifying database connectivity...192.168.56.102
    There was an error adding the nodes to the database
    ROLLBACK 2382:  Cannot create another node. The current license permits 3 node(s) and the database catalog already contains 3 node(s)
    

    Still can't create a cluster with > 3 nodes!

    Basically, when using Vertica CE, SELECT * FROM nodes; must always return 3 or less nodes...

    Besides, Vertica CE is not permitted for use in a production environment. What "real world" need is there for active stand by nodes in a test environment?

  • Jim_KnicelyJim_Knicely - Select Field - Administrator

    @paulc - The point I was trying to make is that with Vertica CE you can not have a 3 node cluster with a 4th node acting as an active standby as that would technically be 4 nodes total in the cluster.

  • drlovedrlove Employee

    Thanks Jim, I couldn't test it so I shouldn't have guessed without testing it first.

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