RE: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats
Does anyone have any experience setting up Cluster Cats or any other solid backup/failover server system? ClusterCats is a software based web server load balancing service. It will do you absolutely no good if your DB server dumps it's motherboard again. For true fault tolerance you would need at least two web servers load balanced with ClusterCats (or any other software or hardware based load balancer) AND at least two DB servers running in a Active/Passive or Active/Active cluster configuration. The latter is very tricky and expensive to achieve, unfortunately. By the way, I have very little experience in actually doing this, only researching it for my own servers. - Sean ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats
oops,, i guess i should have mentioned that we are/will purchase hardware/software as needed - just looking for suggestions on which systems actualy work. looking into cluster cats, MSCS, NSI and anything else that may do the trick hopefully easy and not to expensive kirk - Original Message - From: "Sean Daniels" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 11:42 AM Subject: RE: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats Does anyone have any experience setting up Cluster Cats or any other solid backup/failover server system? ClusterCats is a software based web server load balancing service. It will do you absolutely no good if your DB server dumps it's motherboard again. For true fault tolerance you would need at least two web servers load balanced with ClusterCats (or any other software or hardware based load balancer) AND at least two DB servers running in a Active/Passive or Active/Active cluster configuration. The latter is very tricky and expensive to achieve, unfortunately. By the way, I have very little experience in actually doing this, only researching it for my own servers. - Sean ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats
On of the best hardware tools to Load Balance with is F5's Big IP. They are easily scalable and can load balance as many servers as you have switch space for. It far surpasses Alteon in the way it load balances... If you are interested in a demo email Janeen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and she will set it up... Thanks, Robert - Original Message - From: "Kirk Boecker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 3:14 PM Subject: Re: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats oops,, i guess i should have mentioned that we are/will purchase hardware/software as needed - just looking for suggestions on which systems actualy work. looking into cluster cats, MSCS, NSI and anything else that may do the trick hopefully easy and not to expensive kirk - Original Message - From: "Sean Daniels" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 11:42 AM Subject: RE: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats Does anyone have any experience setting up Cluster Cats or any other solid backup/failover server system? ClusterCats is a software based web server load balancing service. It will do you absolutely no good if your DB server dumps it's motherboard again. For true fault tolerance you would need at least two web servers load balanced with ClusterCats (or any other software or hardware based load balancer) AND at least two DB servers running in a Active/Passive or Active/Active cluster configuration. The latter is very tricky and expensive to achieve, unfortunately. By the way, I have very little experience in actually doing this, only researching it for my own servers. - Sean ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats
I'm not sure what to expensive amounts to, but we use a hardware based load balancing system (Big IP www.bigip.com) that works very well for the web servers (a farm of three, with central data storage). For our SQL Servers, we also use a central data server for the DB's with the load between 2 servers. For failover of both systems, we have backup file servers for the data. Kurt -Original Message- From: Kirk Boecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 3:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats oops,, i guess i should have mentioned that we are/will purchase hardware/software as needed - just looking for suggestions on which systems actualy work. looking into cluster cats, MSCS, NSI and anything else that may do the trick hopefully easy and not to expensive kirk - Original Message - From: "Sean Daniels" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 11:42 AM Subject: RE: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats Does anyone have any experience setting up Cluster Cats or any other solid backup/failover server system? ClusterCats is a software based web server load balancing service. It will do you absolutely no good if your DB server dumps it's motherboard again. For true fault tolerance you would need at least two web servers load balanced with ClusterCats (or any other software or hardware based load balancer) AND at least two DB servers running in a Active/Passive or Active/Active cluster configuration. The latter is very tricky and expensive to achieve, unfortunately. By the way, I have very little experience in actually doing this, only researching it for my own servers. - Sean ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats
thanks for all the info what is the cost of the BIGIP controller? which model are you using? kirk - Original Message - From: "Kurt Ward" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 2:01 PM Subject: RE: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats I'm not sure what to expensive amounts to, but we use a hardware based load balancing system (Big IP www.bigip.com) that works very well for the web servers (a farm of three, with central data storage). For our SQL Servers, we also use a central data server for the DB's with the load between 2 servers. For failover of both systems, we have backup file servers for the data. Kurt -Original Message- From: Kirk Boecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 3:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats oops,, i guess i should have mentioned that we are/will purchase hardware/software as needed - just looking for suggestions on which systems actualy work. looking into cluster cats, MSCS, NSI and anything else that may do the trick hopefully easy and not to expensive kirk - Original Message - From: "Sean Daniels" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 11:42 AM Subject: RE: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats Does anyone have any experience setting up Cluster Cats or any other solid backup/failover server system? ClusterCats is a software based web server load balancing service. It will do you absolutely no good if your DB server dumps it's motherboard again. For true fault tolerance you would need at least two web servers load balanced with ClusterCats (or any other software or hardware based load balancer) AND at least two DB servers running in a Active/Passive or Active/Active cluster configuration. The latter is very tricky and expensive to achieve, unfortunately. By the way, I have very little experience in actually doing this, only researching it for my own servers. - Sean ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats
We have moved to ServerIron switches from Foundry Networks for load balancing and failover. They are flexible and very fast. Cary At 11:10 AM 1/8/2001 -0800, you wrote: Sorry for the slightly OT post, We have a server pair running our main CF application, both are DELL enterprise servers, (1 running win2k, IIS and CF 4.5 and the other running SQL server 7). We are not maxing out the server at all but we need some type of failover security (last week we had a motherboard in the DB server take a dump on us). We are thinking of setting up some type of cluster (cluster cats?) or some type of mirrored set of servers to take over if something goes wrong. Does anyone have any experience setting up Cluster Cats or any other solid backup/failover server system? Kirk Boecker Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats
Win2k Advanced Server's built in clustering and failover software is very slick and easy to use. jon - Original Message - From: "Kirk Boecker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 2:10 PM Subject: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats Sorry for the slightly OT post, We have a server pair running our main CF application, both are DELL enterprise servers, (1 running win2k, IIS and CF 4.5 and the other running SQL server 7). We are not maxing out the server at all but we need some type of failover security (last week we had a motherboard in the DB server take a dump on us). We are thinking of setting up some type of cluster (cluster cats?) or some type of mirrored set of servers to take over if something goes wrong. Does anyone have any experience setting up Cluster Cats or any other solid backup/failover server system? Kirk Boecker ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats
Agreed -Original Message- From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 5:11 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats Win2k Advanced Server's built in clustering and failover software is very slick and easy to use. jon - Original Message - From: "Kirk Boecker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 2:10 PM Subject: Multiple Servers - Cluster Cats Sorry for the slightly OT post, We have a server pair running our main CF application, both are DELL enterprise servers, (1 running win2k, IIS and CF 4.5 and the other running SQL server 7). We are not maxing out the server at all but we need some type of failover security (last week we had a motherboard in the DB server take a dump on us). We are thinking of setting up some type of cluster (cluster cats?) or some type of mirrored set of servers to take over if something goes wrong. Does anyone have any experience setting up Cluster Cats or any other solid backup/failover server system? Kirk Boecker ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
