On Nov 30, 2007 4:12 PM, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at 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. -- -matt