Load Balancer for 2 Jira server instances

[Dinesh]

Hi,

We are exploring an option of setting up the load balancer for our Jira servers that are running on premises.

Currently we only have one server instance and we are thinking of setting up another server instance and emulate the data present in sever1 and build a load balancer on top of these 2 instances for facilitating high availability and to minimize response time. 

.To Summarize we are exploring an option of setting up a Load balancer and High availability option without JIRA data center.

Please let us know whether this approach works or not?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Let me save you a lot of pain and time.  This will not work, do not bother.

People tried it for years before Data Centre was created.  Although Jira Server and Data Centre are essentially the same software, the functions you need to enable clustering (or even just load balancing) between Jira nodes are not active in server and it will take you months or years to code plugins to emulate them.  You will find it cheaper, faster, easier and supportable to simply move to DC.

You can do some setup for HA with a second node, but the best you can do is active-passive - if the main node fails, you can bring up the second one to replace it relatively quickly.