Michael Christie wrote:
Hi all ,
I want to cluster some freeBSD servers, The purpose of this is to
learn. I would like to run some basic services like www and mail on
a test network. I would like to set up the servers so if one server
falls over the other will take over the services automatically, load
balanceing would be good as well.
web links any thing to help me get started would be good. No I do not
want to change over to linux.
High Availability means that your cluster should work even some system
components fail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-availability_cluster
For building HA cluster you should have at last two machines, first
will run in master mode, second in slave( standby )mode.
In every time only one machine works and provide some services (www,
db, etc)
Very good idea is to use NAS(SAN) - Network Access Storage (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage ) with shared disk.
Both nodes of HA cluster will use this shared disk (but only one in
certain time). If one node fails, second node (standby node) will become
a master of cluster and will start some services, that cluster provided.
But NAS systems is not cheap!!
Another way is to use software systems such us DRBD, NFS, chironfs,
rsync etc.
Most of this high-availability software solution works by replicating a
disk partition in a master/slave mode.
Heartbeat + DRBD is one of most popular redundant solutions.
DRBD mirrors a partition between two machines allowing only one of them
to mount it at a time. Heartbeat then monitors the machines, and if it
detects that one of the machines has died, it takes control by mounting
the mirrored disk and starting all the services the other machine is
running.
Unfortunately DRBD runs only on linux but I recommend you to see how it
works for understanding this technology.
http://www.rhic.bnl.gov/hepix/talks/041020am/miers.pdf
http://www.linux-ha.org
http://www.linux-ha.org/DRBD/GettingStarted
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9074
For freebsd to mirror content on bouth nodes you can use rsync as in
this howto:
http://www.taygeta.com/ha-postgresql.html
Another way like as DRBD is to use chironfs + nfs
(sysutils/fusefs-chironfs/)
http://www.furquim.org/chironfs
Also look at CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol)
man carp
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/high-availability.html (for
databases)
ps. sorry for my eng
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Best Wishes,
PAIX-UANIC | SK3929-RIPE
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