By: Todd Vernick user 12 Jun 2015 at 9:40 a.m. CDT

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I opened a ticket related to this before, but we really want to know if there is a simple method to creating a backup gluu server instance. I have two vm's with gluu installed, but they both have different host names and different metadata obviously. Is there any way to create some type of basic backup gluu server in case one fails?

By William Lowe user 12 Jun 2015 at 1:27 p.m. CDT

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Hey Todd, Unfortunately there are no simple options for redundancy right now. However, we're getting very close to finishing our new [cluster packages](http://gluu.org/docs-cluster). They should be ready for public consumption within the next 2-3 months. We're configuring these for some of our supported customers right now, but its still early days. Basically I think you have two options right now: 1) We can discuss a support contract that includes setting up clusters for your org now, or.. 2) Wait until the packages are complete and ready for the public. One thing to note regarding clusters... we always do at least one clustered development environment and one clustered production environment. So typically four servers at a minimum. Sometimes large customers also have a QA cluster environment. Hope that helps. Feel free to [schedule a meeting with us](http://gluu.org/booking) if you want to discuss further. Thanks, Will

By Todd Vernick user 12 Jun 2015 at 2:19 p.m. CDT

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Ok. But as far as having two hosts. Why couldn't both hosts have the same metadata and couldn't you just point the standby host via DNS if the primary one fails? I'm just trying to think of temporary options.

By Mohib Zico staff 12 Jun 2015 at 2:28 p.m. CDT

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Hi Todd, >> Why couldn't both hosts have the same metadata and couldn't you just point the standby host via DNS if the primary one fails? That won't support failover IDP cluster purpose. Our cluster solution includes File system replication, LDAP replication, session management etc. This way an user won't even understand if server goes down because his/her session and ldap data will active even after the outage of any node.