Configure a Conductor for High Availability
Conductor High Availability (HA) provides hardware redundancy between two Conductors and requires a manual failover. When creating a Conductor HA pair, one Conductor is assigned as the master and the second is assigned as the standby. The master Conductor is used to manage HIPservices, overlay networks and communications policies.
As a system administrator, you can access a standby Conductor, but only limited
functionality is available. In standby mode, the Conductor is kept in sync with
the master Conductor, but has
limited functionality as follows:
- Read-only database
- Conductor HA configuration changes
- System setup changes
- Firmware updates
Using failover
You need to manually initiate failover between the master and the standby Conductor. The manual failover can take several minutes to complete. During this time, the HIPservices and devices continue to operate in their current configurations, and overlay network communications are not interrupted.