how to make Jira instance High available

Question

Hi All,

we have a Jira s installed on one of the CentOS 7 machine. currently we are using MySQL DB as back end. we have bought commercial license for 2000 users. we are planning to make this server HA

is there any procedure available for the same to make any existing jira software instance HA?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

For a proper HA system, you should move to Data Centre.

The best you can do with a Server instance of Jira is a warm-ish standby.  Two machines, one of which is production, the second a failover system which is not running.  You replicate essential data to the failover system (so probably putting attachments on a shared remote file share, and having two database servers, with production replicating to the failover one)

If the main server dies, you reconfigure things to point to the failover, start it up, run a full re-index and let the users back in.

Gustav L'Estrade · Answer

Hi @RajaSekhar Kavuri

There is no option to make a server deployment HA. My recommendation is to have a look at the Datacenter deployment option, since one of its core features is the node clustering for high availability and performance even when many users are using the system at the same time.

Please see following link for more information about the difference between server and datacetner deployment: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/server-vs-data-center-whats-right

Hope this helps.

Good luck with your deployment endeavors!