JIRA Clustering

JIRA Clustering applies WANdisco's active-active replication technology to bring enterprise class scalability and reliability to JIRA's flexible and easy to use bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management solution. With JIRA Clustering, a central JIRA server is no longer a performance bottleneck.

How WANdisco Alleviates the JIRA Re-indexing Problem

One of the challenges many JIRA implementations face is the administrative overhead and downtime required for re-indexing, sometimes referred to as rebalancing, or index optimization. Re-indexing is required on a regular basis to maintain acceptable levels of performance.

With a standard single server JIRA implementation, user access has to be suspended during re-indexing. This is necessary in order to avoid locking and database corruption problems that can occur when users attempt to perform updates while re-indexing is taking place. In a large implementation this often takes 4 to 6 hours on a daily basis. Full 24X7 operation is impossible.

With either JIRA MultiSite or JIRA Clustering, there's no need to disrupt user access during re-indexing, or any other maintenance procedure. The automated failover and recovery features built into these solutions, along with their unique shared nothing architecture, allow users to access other servers while re-indexing, or any other maintenance procedures are performed. Once re-indexing is complete, the server comes back online and resynchronizes automatically with the other servers in the JIRA Clustering or JIRA MultiSite implementation.

Where to Next?

Who uses it? Over 8,700 organizations from over 97 countries use JIRA for bug and issue tracking and project management.

Do I need JIRA MultiSite or JIRA Clustering?

Where can I learn more? View our video overview (10 minutes), download a PDF brochure, get pricing, or see how JIRA Clustering stacks up against the competition.

JIRA MultiSite / Clustering Overview (10 minutes)

JIRA Clustering Brochure

JIRA MultiSite Brochure

Features

• Provides clustering over a LAN to dynamically balance workload across multiple JIRA servers at a single location.
• Has no single point of failure whatsoever. JIRA Clustering's approach is truly shared nothing. There is no sharing of disk, CPU, or memory between servers with JIRA Clustering.
• Does not rely on a single shared database. Each server in the cluster has its own independent database replica that is kept in sync with all of the others by WANdisco's active-active replication technology.
• Provides failover and automated disaster recovery to insure business continuity, without any reliance on third party disk mirroring solutions.
• Can be implemented standalone or in conjunction with WANdisco's clustering solutions for Subversion and CVS to provide a complete, highly reliable and scalable application lifecycle management solution stack.

What is JIRA?

JIRA is a bug tracking, issue tracking and project management solution that has rapidly become a market leader in the application lifecycle management (ALM) space. JIRA's ease of use, ease of deployment, and full feature set have garnered it more than 8,700 customers in more than 97 countries, including many of the Global Fortune 1000.

What is JIRA Clustering?

JIRA Clustering combines JIRA's flexible and easy to use bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management solution with WANdisco's active-active replication technology, to turn a central JIRA server implementation into a highly scalable and reliable enterprise-class application lifecycle management solution that even the largest globally distributed IT organizations can rely upon. JIRA Clustering supports clustering over a WAN, or a LAN, without any single point of failure. JIRA Clustering also provides failover and self-healing capabilities that automate disaster recovery without any administrator intervention, or dependencies on third party disk mirroring solutions.

JIRA Clustering Brochure

Features You Get Everywhere With JIRA Clustering

	Immediate Visibility to Organize, Track and Manage JIRA's intuitive Eclipse dashboard provides immediate visibility into individual issue and overall project status. Project managers can see the actual time required to complete a task, or resolve an issue down to the minute. The entire history of any deliverable can be tracked at any point in time throughout the development lifecycle.
	Issue Creation Create tasks, bug reports, enhancement requests, support tickets, and issues. Anything entered into any server in a JIRA Cluster, is immediately replicated to other JIRA servers in the cluster, regardless of whether the other servers are on the same LAN, or located remotely over a WAN. Attach files and screenshots to issues entered in JIRA, and they're immediately replicated to the other servers in the cluster as well.
	Workflow JIRA's approval-based workflow consistently enforces adherence to development procedures across all servers in the cluster. Project managers can control when development artifacts such as source code, project documents, bug fixes, and enhancement requests are released to the next phase of development, as well as who can make changes during each phase. Email alerts and RSS feeds can be configured to notify users of any changes in status that effect them.
	Access Control Fine-grained role based access control at the individual user and project team levels can be defined. Once access control is configured, it's replicated to all servers in the cluster, as are any future changes.
	Extensibility and Integration Using JIRA's APIs and plugin architecture, you can add new functionality, manipulate data and integrate JIRA with legacy applications and version control systems such as Subversion, CVS, Perforce, ClearCase, Visual Source Safe and others. JIRA's also Web service enabled for programmatic control with external applications using SOAP, XML-RPC and REST interfaces.
	Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity When one of the JIRA servers in a cluster fails, developers can continue working. When the server comes back online, recovery happens automatically, without any administrator intervention. This ensures zero loss of data, and no lost development time.
	Easy Installation and Administration JIRA Clustering is low maintenance, and easy to install and administer. Replication is automatic, and transactional consistency is guaranteed across all JIRA servers in a cluster. Self-healing capabilities automate recovery after a network outage or server crash.

System Requirements for JIRA Clustering
JIRA MultiSite runs with just about any database and is web-based, so it can be accessed anytime from anywhere. A J2SE 1.5 or above compliant Java runtime environment is required in the server environment where JIRA MultiSite is installed at each location. Linux, Unix and Windows operating systems are supported.

JIRA MultiSite is sold exclusively by WANdisco through an OEM arrangement with Atlassian Software Systems Pty Ltd.