On 11/15/2011 09:50 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Basically I'd like to get up to speed really quickly on different > clustering technologies, and maybe even set up a CentOS (or > Scientific) based cluster in a sandbox to play with. > > I guess - looking for reading to get up to speed on clustering, and > wondering what my options are with CentOS, RHEL and Scientific. > > thanks, > -Alan I suspect this is not of interest to you, but it does fall under "different clustering technologies", if under the High-Availability side of things. You want performance clustering, which generally requires purpose-built solutions (save for simple web/dns/mail load balancers). Older but complete HA VM clustering on EL5 (inc. CentOS); https://alteeve.com/w/Red_Hat_Cluster_Service_2_Tutorial More up to date but not yet complete update of the above for EL6 with redundant networking; https://alteeve.com/w/2-Node_Red_Hat_KVM_Cluster_Tutorial hth -- Digimer E-Mail: digimer at alteeve.com Freenode handle: digimer Papers and Projects: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org "omg my singularity battery is dead again. stupid hawking radiation." - epitron