Setup OTD HA

OTD active/standby failover

You have installed OTD (Oracle Traffic Director), configured nodes and created an instance. Now you want to set up an OTD active standby failover. First you will need a virtual IP address. Log in to EMOC (Enterprise Manager OPS Center) and allocate a virtual IP for use in the OTD failovergroup.

Go to the accounts Networks setting and press the icon Allocate vIP from vNet in the section Public Networks.

Choose your number of vIPs you want.

Make a note of the IP-address given. This is the failoveraddress you will use in OTD.

Add the virtual IP allocated to /etc/hosts on all VM’s. If you don’t have a DNS server inside the exalogic, this is to make sure the traffic remains inside the exalogic.

[root@admvm \~]\# vi /etc/hosts
192.168.99.99 soa-exaqa.xxx.yy \# OTD virtual http listener address

Update all the hosts in this environment with the new line in /etc/hosts.

[root@admvm \~]\# scp -rp /etc/hosts wlsvm2:/etc/hosts
root@wlsvm2's password:
hosts 100% 586 0.6KB/s 00:00
[root@admvm \~]\# ssh wlsvm1 cat /etc/hosts |grep virtual
root@wlsvm1's password:
192.168.99.99 soa-exaqa.xxx.yy \# OTD virtual http listener
address

Setup Failovergroup

Now we are at the point setting up the failover.

Click the button New Failover Group to create the failovergroup.

Type the virtual IP address or hostname (in /etc/hosts) and a unique Router ID.

Router ID must be unique. If f.eks router id 254 also is used in another environment inside exalogic, this will NOT work. If so change the Router ID to f.eks 253.

In a ssh session, find which bond is holding the public ip and choose that one in the Network Interface (NIC) section:

[root@otdvm1 \~]\# ifconfig -a bond3
bond3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:4E:FA:A3:74
inet addr:192.168.99.97 Bcast:192.168.99.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:227253 errors:0 dropped:33798 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:903599 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17704581 (16.8 MiB) TX bytes:1234088793 (1.1 GiB)
[root@otdvm2 \~]\# ifconfig -a bond3
bond3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:34:4A:FB:3A:64
inet addr:192.168.99.98 Bcast:192.168.99.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:247610 errors:0 dropped:33803 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:915563 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:19190583 (18.3 MiB) TX bytes:1235665926 (1.1 GiB)