VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ includes Warm Standby Replication and Intra-cluster Compression as commercial features which are exclusive to the VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ for Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ OCI, and VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ OVA offerings. The manual configuration of these features in the OCI image is described in this documentation. These features are not available in the open source version of RabbitMQ.

Intra-cluster Compression

This feature enables compression between RabbitMQ nodes and CLI tools. It can result in cost savings if you are operating RabbitMQ in the cloud, in different availability zones, as most cloud providers charge for inter-zone network traffic.

Warm Standby Replication

The Warm Standby Replication feature is a strategy which replicates or copies data (continuous schema definitions and messages) from an upstream (primary) RabbitMQ cluster to a downstream (secondary) cluster. In the event of a failure on the upstream (primary) cluster, an administrator can quickly start the recovery process, which means putting the downstream (standby) cluster into service as the new upstream (primary) cluster with minimal downtime or data loss.