VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ includes warm standby replication and intra-cluster compression as commercial features that are exclusive to Tanzu RabbitMQ for Kubernetes, Tanzu RabbitMQ OCI, and Tanzu RabbitMQ OVA. This documentation describes the manual configuration of these features in the OCI image. 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 save money if you are operating RabbitMQ in the cloud, in different availability zones, because most cloud providers charge for inter-zone network traffic.

Warm Standby Replication

The warm standby replication feature is a strategy that replicates 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.