On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 08:50, Markus Oswald wrote: > Personally I would suggest LVS / keepalived - IMHO it's the most robust > and powerful solution you can currently get. Definitely worth a look... > > It's not as hard to setup as you think - you need a little bit of > experience for planing your cluster setup, but the software installation > and configuration is probably the easier part. > > I installed/run multiple clusters, some with quite a lot of traffic > (well, that's what load-balancing is good for) some just needed the HA > features. No serious problems with keepalived and no problems at all > with LVS.
Looking at the documentation for LVS, it mentions that it needs two nodes, a primary node and a backup node which then feeds into n real servers. Does this mean that I will need two additional machines to be able to do LVS or would I be able to double up a couple of the webservers as the nodes ? Thanks for the feedback, Best wishes, Shri -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions Tel: 0845 644 4745 I.T. Consultant Edinburgh, Scotland Mob: 0773 980 3499 Web: www.urbyte.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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