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The ability to have more than a single functioning master has been added with ZCS 8.0 and later.  This document details the steps required for setting up a Multi-Master configuration, as well as how to perform administrative tasks such as promote an existing replica to be part of the multi-master pool.  Multi-Master Replication will be shortened to MMR for the rest of this document.
The ability to have more than a single functioning master has been added with ZCS 8.0 and later.  This document details the steps required for setting up a Multi-Master configuration, as well as how to perform administrative tasks such as promote an existing replica to be part of the multi-master pool.  Multi-Master Replication will be shortened to MMR for the rest of this document.
Two example hostnames will be used throughout this document.
master1.example.com (Primary initial master)
master2.example.com (Secondary master that is being added)
== Data to have before starting ==
* Zimbra Admin LDAP Password
* LDAP replication password
* NGINX LDAP password
* Amavis LDAP password
* Postfix LDAP password


== Enabling Multi-Master replication on an existing Single node master ==
== Enabling Multi-Master replication on an existing Single node master ==
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On the single-node master as the zimbra user:
On the single-node master as the zimbra user:
  * ./libexec/zmldapenable-mmr -s 1 -m ldap://secondmaster.example.com:389/  
  * ./libexec/zmldapenable-mmr -s 1 -m ldap://master2.example.com:389/  


Executing this command will do the following things:
Executing this command will do the following things:
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== Installing a Secondary master ==
== Installing a Secondary master ==
To install a brand new secondary master, install ZCS as you normally would for a multi-node installation.  '''zcs-ldap''' must be one of the packages chosen for installation.
To install a brand new secondary master, install ZCS as you normally would for a multi-node installation.  '''zcs-ldap''' must be one of the packages chosen for installation.
On the installation menu, choose "1" for common configuration
Change the ldap master hostname to be that of your primary master (Ex. master1.example.com)
Change the admin password


== Promoting an existing replica to be a multi-master ==
== Promoting an existing replica to be a multi-master ==

Revision as of 21:38, 25 July 2011

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This article applies to the following ZCS versions.

ZCS 8.0 Article ZCS 8.0

Zimbra Multi-Master Replication

The ability to have more than a single functioning master has been added with ZCS 8.0 and later. This document details the steps required for setting up a Multi-Master configuration, as well as how to perform administrative tasks such as promote an existing replica to be part of the multi-master pool. Multi-Master Replication will be shortened to MMR for the rest of this document.

Two example hostnames will be used throughout this document.

master1.example.com (Primary initial master) master2.example.com (Secondary master that is being added)

Data to have before starting

* Zimbra Admin LDAP Password
* LDAP replication password
* NGINX LDAP password
* Amavis LDAP password
* Postfix LDAP password

Enabling Multi-Master replication on an existing Single node master

This assumes you already have an installed single-master ZCS LDAP server that is not already enabled for MMR. Enabling MMR is a manual one-time step. You will need to know the hostname of the secondary master you plan on adding into the multi-master pool before you can enable MMR on your standalone master.

On the single-node master as the zimbra user:

* ./libexec/zmldapenable-mmr -s 1 -m ldap://master2.example.com:389/ 

Executing this command will do the following things:

* Set this master's Server ID (sid) to 1
* Tell the master that it will be in a pool with a secondary master named secondmaster.example.com that is listening to LDAP on port 389
* It will use the default Replication ID (rid) of 100 for the secondary master

Installing a Secondary master

To install a brand new secondary master, install ZCS as you normally would for a multi-node installation. zcs-ldap must be one of the packages chosen for installation.

On the installation menu, choose "1" for common configuration Change the ldap master hostname to be that of your primary master (Ex. master1.example.com) Change the admin password

Promoting an existing replica to be a multi-master

MMR utilities

Configuration more than two masters

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