Disaster Recovery and Multi-Active Solution

Single-AZ HA Within a Region

Single-AZ deployment means deploying an instance within a physical equipment room. DCS provides process/service HA, data persistence, and hot standby DR policies for different types of DCS instances.

Single-node DCS instance: When DCS detects a process fault, a new process is started to ensure service HA.

Figure 2 HA for a single-node DCS instance deployed within an AZ

Master/Standby DCS instance: Data is persisted to disk on the master node and incrementally synchronized and persisted to the standby node, achieving hot standby and data persistence.

Figure 3 HA for a master/standby DCS instance deployed within an AZ

Cluster DCS instance: Similar to a master/standby instance, data in each shard (instance process) of a cluster instance is synchronized between master and standby nodes and persisted in both nodes.

Figure 4 HA for a cluster DCS instance deployed within an AZ

Cross-AZ DR Within a Region

The master and standby nodes of a master/standby or cluster DCS instance can be deployed across AZs (in different equipment rooms). Power supplies and networks of different AZs are physically isolated. When a fault occurs in the AZ where the master node is deployed, the standby node connects to the client and takes over data read and write operations.

Figure 5 Cross-AZ deployment of a master/standby DCS instance

This mechanism applies in a similar way to a cluster DCS instance, in which each shard (process) is deployed across AZs.

When creating a master/standby DCS instance, select a standby AZ that is different from the master AZ as shown below.

Figure 6 Selecting different AZs

You can also deploy your application across AZs to ensure both data reliability and service availability in the event of power supply or network disruptions.

Cross-Region Multi-Active

Currently, HUAWEI CLOUD DCS does not support cross-region multi-active because Redis does not have a mature active-active solution. Active-active is different from disaster recovery or master/standby HA.

Redis active-active across clouds or regions cannot be achieved because the customized REdis Serialization Protocols (RESP) are not unified. If active-active is required, it can be implemented through dual-write on the application end.

Figure 7 Dual-write on the application side to achieve multi-active

Note:

1. The dual-write solution cannot ensure cache consistency (due to network problems). Applications need to tolerate cache inconsistency (by setting the time to live to achieve eventual consistency). If applications require strong cache consistency, this solution is not suitable. Currently, there is no solution in the industry to ensure strong cross-region cache consistency.
2. You are advised to perform operations on the cross-region L2 cache in asynchronous mode.