Gerry Reno schrieb: > Gerry Reno wrote: > >> Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: >> >> >>> realserver is an LVS term referring to the machine/node(s) >>> that are being loadbalanced by the director. >>> >>> I've never liked the LVS nomenclature; e.g. "virtual", >>> "realserver", but since I couldn't come up with an >>> alternative and no-one else seemed to mind, I've just >>> accepted it. We haven't had too much problems with the word >>> "virtual" since we haven't run into other projects using the >>> term much. However if realservers are going to be >>> virtualised, there's going to be lots of name space >>> collisions. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Joe, >> I can see the term 'realserver' becoming a problem. A lot of people are >> going to think this is real hardware when it's not limited to just real >> hardware. I think a better term might be 'actual server' or 'runserver' >> or 'destination server' or 'target server' >> > or 'pool server' > In fact the thing called "realserver" is no server at all it's a _service_. So it may lead out of naming trouble to call them real and virtual services.
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