On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Rudi Ahlers rudiahlers@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Tom Brown tom@ng23.net wrote:
Yes, the idea is to run a XEN farm. Each VPS will have it own set of sofware running, from Windows to Linux, with SQL / Web / Email / etc.
With regards to load balancing, I need it so that the total load of all the XEN VPS's can be spread out among the XEN servers, almost like a super computer. How will I do this?
depends on how much of your own effort you want to put in getting this running - it might be that Xen Enterprise is something that would benefit you more. It can be done with other tools but if you want VM's to magically start working over >> there when the host here << dies then i think you need to look at a commercial product. I dont like Xen Enterprise and never will but if you want to use Xen then you may have to go that route. You could make it so that disk images are on shred storage and so recovery to a different dom0 is short but if you want seamless then i think you'll have to pay $$
Hi Tom,
Thank you for the input. Let's forget about XEN for a moment, I was actually looking at setting up a cluster which has fail-over & load balancing capabilities, regardless of what runs on it. If XEN enterprise is the only option,then I'm not going to bother. I don't see why I need to pay for a tool which has a helpdesk and "professional technicians standing by" to help me when I get stuck, if XEN can do the same.
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Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers
I've actually been looking at VMWare's grid which costs about $5000 - which is much easier to go for, than with XEN enterprise, but I was hoping to accomplish this task without spending extra money