Failover and Data Recovery in Storage

Any Jive deployment beyond a simple pilot or proof-of-concept must use file system storage, where each web application node reads and writes from a shared disk system via NFS.

Jive supports two types of binary file storage:

Database: This is the default binary file storage.
File System: This is the preferred binary file storage.

External Storage Failover in a Single Data Center HA Configuration

In a single data center HA configuration, it's assumed that the external storage is redundant within the data center. For an illustration, see Designing a Single Data Center HA Configuration.

In the event of a local (within the single data center) or a catastrophic (the entire data center) failure, it is assumed that the storage layer that Jive is configured with is redundant and that recovery is handled transparently by the underlying storage system.

External Storage Failover in a Multiple Data Center HA Configuration

In a multiple data center HA configuration, it's assumed that the external storage is being replicated across the data centers transparently. For an illustration, see Designing a Multiple Data Center HA Configuration.