[CentOS] load balancer recommendations

[Boris Epstein]

Leon,

Thanks!

Looks good - though seems to be highly specific. I will check it out.

Boris.


On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Am 19.01.2013 um 21:35 schrieb Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com>:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > The question is not necessarily CentOS-specific - but there are lots of
> > bright people on here, and - quite possibly - the final implementation
> will
> > be on CentOS hence I figured I'd ask it here. Here is the situation.
> >
> > I need to configure a Linux-based network load balancer (NLB) solution.
> The
> > idea is this. Let us say I have a public facing load balancer machine
> with
> > an public IP of, say, 50.50.50.50. It is to receive the traffic (let's
> say,
> > HTTP traffic) and then route it to two private HTTP servers, let's say,
> > 192.168.10.10 and 192.168.10.11. It has to have persistence - i.e., be
> > state- and session-aware. If for whatever reason one of the servers goes
> > down the remaining pool shares all the traffic in some fashion (be it
> eound
> > robin, saturation based, whatever).
> >
> > We have tried Vyatta ( http://vyatta.org/ ) and ZeroShell (
> > http://www.zeroshell.org/ ) and both are very good but their NLB seems
> to
> > be externally facing (i.e., you have several internet connections and are
> > trying to divide your traffic between them). What we need is an
> "internally
> > facing" one, if I may say so.
> >
> > Any advice on what may help us would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Did you check haproxy -> http://haproxy.1wt.eu.
>
> Application session should be shared via distributed
> key-value store (e.g. redis). Speak another instance
> to manage.
>
> --
> LF
>
>
>
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