Even though it is not free, I would highly recommend you check out the
Holentech Switches. They are perfect for this.
Best Regards,
Rahim Valiani.
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Steve Frampton wrote:
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> Our organization is planning to purchase 10 rack mount systems which will
> primarily be used to server web pages and applications. Our goal is to
> find a clustering technology that will deliver in order of priority
> 1) high availability/failover 2) load balancing 3) effective CPU
> utilization.
>
> I've been browsing the web looking for Open Source Linux-based clustering
> solutions. There seem to be several projects from which to choose from,
> and I am wondering which one is best for my needs. Among them:
>
> - - - Beowolf: appears to be ideal for high performance but not for high
> availability
>
> - - - MOSIX: appears to also be ideal for high CPU performance but no
> benefit for I/O bound applications; high availability doesn't appear to
> be supported(?)
>
> - - - High Availability Linux Project: load balancing and high availability
>
> - - - Virtual Server Project: load balancing and high availability
>
> - - - Piranha: load balancing and high availability
>
> - - - mod_backhand: for Apache web load balancing; appears to be too
> application specific for our goals.
>
> There are probably others (note that I deliberately excluded any software
> that isn't free either as in beer or as in speech).
>
> Also, if i were to deploy a Mosix-based cluster, what kinds of hardware is
> required? Ie. serial cables for heartbeat monitoring, etc.? Is there one
> box which is used for the load balancing among clustered systems as is
> done with Virtual Server Project? Is it possible for all clustered
> systems to connect to an external RAID unit, or will they need to
> communicate for data through one I/O server connected to the RAID unit
> (I'm trying to eliminate points of failure).
>
> Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>
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