Documentation forSolarWinds Platform Self-Hosted

Set up High Availability pools with multiple active and standby servers (HA multi-clustering)

This topic applies only to SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.

Set up HA pools with multiple active and standby servers for your Additional polling engines. See also Set up a SolarWinds Platform High Availability pool.

  • HA reports pool status as partially operational even though all active members are healthy.
  • A VIP or Virtual Hostname can be assigned to a HA Pool with only two servers and cannot be assigned to individual pool members.

Requirements

  • All polling engines must have the same version
  • An activated SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Enterprise Scale license

Create a HA pool

Use the Pools tab in My Deployments to create a HA pool with multiple members.

  1. Go to Settings > My Deployment, or go to Main Settings & Administration and click My Deployment in the Details section.

  2. In the Pools tab, click Add.

  3. Enter a name for your pool.

    1. Before selecting pool members, Allow SolarWinds to manage the VIP/Virtual Hostname is selected by default, and the fields are enabled.

    2. When the HA pool has more than two members, the VIP and Virtual Hostname fields are disabled. Instead, you have the option to use an external load balancer if you plan to send inbound data to SolarWinds servers. For more information, see Recommendations for using a network load balancer for the SolarWinds Platform

  4. Click Add, and select three or more servers to add to your pool.

  5. Once added, you can specify which server(s) will be assigned an active or standby role.

  6. Click Next, and review your selections.

  7. Click Finish to complete the pool setup.

As a result, a new HA pool is created.