On Nov 30, 2007 4:30 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm beginning to give up on making Linux-HA's heartbeat work for my > environment (CentOS x86_64) and am wondering what other option have I got to > help me: > 1. Use IPVS to maintain a cluster of virtual servers, either master/slave or > load-balanced. > 2. Use DRBD in master/slave fashion to keep a home-grown application > highly-available. > > The first thing I stumbled upon is RedHat Cluster Suite ( > http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/centos_linux_guides/centos_cluster_configuration_and_management/), > from which I also saw some packages on my CentOS servers. > > I've never heard of it before and am just starting to dig its docs, but if > someone here can confirm/deny that this is a possible route to take it might > save me some time or doubts. Dump the cluste suite and use the LinuxVirtualServer.org packages. You won't have a gui, but it will be better in the long run. We're using that for quite a few clusters and handling about 30MBit/s on each of the clusters, I think it's around 10k concurrent connections. -- -matt