RE: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

2006-04-11 Thread Visser, Martin
There is a good website here http://www.linuxhpc.org/ with lots of info and references. Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting & Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail:

Re: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

2006-04-11 Thread Howard Lowndes
Basically I'm looking at two Xen server boxes, physically wide spread, each with multiple virtual servers, that I need to keep synchronised and monitored such that when a virtual server falls over then its compatriot on the other box gets transparently brought on line, or when a box itself fall

Re: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

2006-04-11 Thread O Plameras
Howard Lowndes wrote: ...is it possible? ...what's the best way? Do you mean by 'tandeming' is 'redundancy' and/or location transparency and/or 'uninterrupted' file access when one server goes down ? Microsoft has DFS, IBM has TransArc which was branched to OpenAFS (www.openafs.org), CMU has C

Re: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

2006-04-11 Thread Howard Lowndes
Tks, that looks a good place to start... Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:27:14AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: ...is it possible? Depends on what you want exactly. ...what's the best way? Ultra-Monkey! (probably) Check out linux-ha.org -- Howard. LANNet Computin

Re: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

2006-04-11 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:27:14AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > ...is it possible? Depends on what you want exactly. > ...what's the best way? Ultra-Monkey! (probably) Check out linux-ha.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: