On Nov 30, 2007 4:12 PM, Ross S. W. Walker rwalker@medallion.com wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
Matt Shields wrote:
Dump the cluste suite and use the LinuxVirtualServer.org packages.
isn't that heartbeat and stuff repackaged?
Visiting the web site it appears to be a load-balancer, not that that wouldn't be useful in some scenarios, but it isn't really "clustering" software that is to have an application run in active/passive or active/active between multiple nodes cooperatively, with fencing and shared storage, locking and all that goes with that.
-Ross
LVS is a group of tools that do a lot of different things, the two that you are interested in are:
- heartbeat - provides failover if you have two nodes (active/active or active/passive) - ipvsadm/ldirectord - provides load balancing (ie. http(s) load balancer in front of multiple web servers)
As stated in a previous post we have a number of these setup in our network and we handle a lot of traffic. Some we're using for http(s) traffic, others smtp/pop/imap, others mysql (read only queries off replicas). There's no end to what what you could use heartbeat or ipvsadm/ldirectord or both for. Both packages can be installed from dag's repo.