Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Iain Morris wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:36 AM, David Brian Chait >> wrote: >> > >> >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy >> >> wrote: >> >> however for my purpose open and free HAProxy r

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-08 Thread Iain Morris
I'm surprised to see so many choosing HAProxy over LVS, which seems fairly integrated into Red Hat's offerings, with full documentation and rpms in CentOS and RHN. I've set up LVS before for an internal java application and it seemed straightforward after understanding arptables, etc. Is HAProxy

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-07 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:36 AM, David Brian Chait wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: >> however for my purpose open and free HAProxy remains best choice!! > >> +1 for HAProxy; excellent piece of software. > > It really depends on your needs, if you are building a produc

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-06 Thread David Brian Chait
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > however for my purpose open and free HAProxy remains best choice!! > +1 for HAProxy; excellent piece of software. It really depends on your needs, if you are building a production ops environment then the last thing that you would want woul

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-06 Thread Lucian
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > however for my purpose open and free HAProxy remains best choice!! +1 for HAProxy; excellent piece of software. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-06 Thread Tim Dunphy
an interesting choice for low cost hardware load balancing appliances is coyote point http://www.coyotepoint.com/products/?gclid=CI6ri9jQu6cCFQbc4Aodmi1V4Q however for my purpose open and free HAProxy remains best choice!! On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Charles Polisher wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-06 Thread Charles Polisher
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > A warning: round robin can be problematical. Amen. Consider what happens with round-robin DNS when one host stops working. Round-robin DNS will hand out the address of the failed host just as often as it did when it was all working. Some clients (applications) will atte

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Todd wrote: > Brian, > Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your > reply. >> >> OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It >> handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows >> dynamic ad

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread James Nguyen
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:25 AM, wrote: > James Nguyen wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Todd wrote: >>> Brian, >>> Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your >>> reply. OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It > >> if th

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/4/2011 1:18 PM, James Nguyen wrote: > > You want two boxes that run both haproxy + keepalived. This way you > get the load balancing (HAProxy) plus the high availability > (Keepalived) using a shared virtual IP for your two boxes. You can do > maintenance on either one while traffic still re

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:18 PM, James Nguyen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Todd wrote: >> Brian, >> Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your >> reply. >>> >>> OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It >>> handled sticky sessions

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
James Nguyen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Todd wrote: >> Brian, >> Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your >> reply. >>> >>> OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It > if they think the solution requires a lot of CPU. Memory

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread James Nguyen
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Todd wrote: > Brian, > Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your > reply. >> >> OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It >> handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows >> dynamic add

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Todd
Brian, Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your reply. OK, so what's good? For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent. It > handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows > dynamic adding/removing of servers, as well as maintenance modes. >

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Tim Dunphy
also I forgot to mention for heartbeat I use keepalived http://www.keepalived.org/ I found hearbeat a little difficult to implement but keepalived by comparison is a breeze to setup. Forget about multiple A records. That's a naive approach and entirely unnecessary. As other's have pointed out ju

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Tim Dunphy
>OK, so what's good? For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent. It > handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows > dynamic adding/removing of servers, as well as maintenance modes. > It's very easy to install and configure. I'm using is as the backend > to apache that

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Todd wrote: > Hi All, > Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is > getting considerable traffic?  In the past I only have experience with BigIP > where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send traffic to > the best ser

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Todd wrote: >> >> Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that >> is getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience >> with BigIP where you have a load balancing device that keeps track >> and send tr

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Jay Leafey
I've used round-robin DNS with good success, but I added some additional tweaks using Heartbeat to manage the actual addresses. A typical case is where you have two systems that will be used to offer a service. Each machine has it's own IP address, but in addition there are a pair of IPs for

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/3/11 7:56 PM, Sean Hart wrote: > Hi Sean, Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. So if I have 2 identical servers, each with there own IP, how will one of them going down cause issues? I'm assuming multiple A records for the same host

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Ryan Ordway wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:12 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > >>> Round robin DNS would balance load, but will cause problems if one of >>> them goes down. >> >> Hi Sean, >> >> Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. >> >> So if I have

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Sean Hart
>>> Hi Sean, >>> >>> Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. >>> >>> So if I have 2 identical servers, each with there own IP, how will >>> one >>> of them going down cause issues? >>> >>> I'm assuming multiple A records for the same host will be handled >>> fine >>> by the clien

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=relayd&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html I wouldn't be surprised if that what was in part driving those low cost appliance load balancers. Cool find, a definite book mark. - aurf __

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hi All, | | Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is | getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience with | BigIP | where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send | traffic to | the best server possib

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread David Brian Chait
> Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is > getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience with > BigIP where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send > traffic to the best server possible at the time. This was a proprietary > sy

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Ryan Ordway wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:12 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > >>> Round robin DNS would balance load, but will cause problems if one >>> of >>> them goes down. >> >> Hi Sean, >> >> Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. >> >> So if I hav

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:24 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/03/11 4:12 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. >> >> So if I have 2 identical servers, each with there own IP, how will >> one >> of them going down cause issues? >> >> I'm assuming multi

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Ryan Ordway
On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:12 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> Round robin DNS would balance load, but will cause problems if one of >> them goes down. > > Hi Sean, > > Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. > > So if I have 2 identical servers, each with there own IP, how will one

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/03/11 4:12 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. > > So if I have 2 identical servers, each with there own IP, how will one > of them going down cause issues? > > I'm assuming multiple A records for the same host will be handled fine > by the c

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Sean Hart wrote: > IPVS or LVS can work as a really simple/free solution: > http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/software/ipvs.html This was a very cool link. I see that if in mid stream a server goes down while one is on it, problems could arise as it won't be seamles

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
> Round robin DNS would balance load, but will cause problems if one of > them goes down. Hi Sean, Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. So if I have 2 identical servers, each with there own IP, how will one of them going down cause issues? I'm assuming multiple A records for

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Sean Hart
On 3/3/11 3:51 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Todd wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that >> is getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience >> with BigIP where you have a load balancing

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 3, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Todd wrote: > Hi All, > > Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that > is getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience > with BigIP where you have a load balancing device that keeps track > and send traffic to the best

[CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Todd
Hi All, Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience with BigIP where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send traffic to the best server possible at the time. This was a proprietary syste

[CentOS] Load-Balancing Virtualized Guests

2007-11-30 Thread Alvin Chang
Hi everyone: According to "Automated failover and recovery of virtualized guests in Advanced Platform", one can easily migrate virtualized guests around different hosts. However, is it currently possible for CentOS 5 with Virtualization&Clustering Suite to migrate guests dynamically according to l