sbeam wrote: > Interested in this discussion too, for reasons recently discussed... > > On Tuesday 27 May 2008 09:07, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > >> For a starter, there is a very simple tool for this. >> It's http://www.inlab.de/balance.html >> > > >> 2. RedHat Cluster Suite dan Piranha (http://www.redhat.com) >> 3. Linux Virtual Server (http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org) >> > > Do all of these (or IPVS or Cluster Suite/GFS) take care of real-time sharing > of storage (sessions, database, files, logs) between all nodes? For a LAMP or > JEE or any other HTTP stack serving anything but readonly static files, this > is usually a requirement. > > GFS is for sharing filesystem I know and there are howtos. So would you put > Balance or LVS on top of GFS, or... > > Would HA/DRBD be on the short list? http://www.drbd.org/ in our case we have a > two-node cluster anyway so this seems like the most straightforward option. > Or would something else be superior, more up-to-date? > > Sam I think for a two nodes with real time storage sharing heartbeat / drbd would offer what you want. There's a pretty simple how to on the centos wiki to get you up and running. I've not really used the RedHat cluster suite, but I 'think' it can offer a similar solution. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Ha-Drbd -Ross-