On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Nick Silkey wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 17:03 +0800, Atom Powers wrote: >>> What are the other strategies for making a service highly available? >> >> Have you looked into LVS? >> http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ >> >> Combine that with Linux Hearbeat (http://www.linux-ha.org/) and you get >> a full load balanced HA cluster. > > I second the LVS recommendation. Its a great layer-4 load-balancing > function. Code was merged into the Linux kernel several years back; > very stable IME/IMHO. There are quote a few projects (Ultra Monkey, > keepalived, etc) which have wrappers for LVS functions to test service > viability for HA. Great solution for those who cannot afford turnkey > appliances (F5, Foundry, Netscaler, etc) or prefer the DIY approach. > > There is also the CARP project in *BSD land. Unfortunately, the UCARP > project to bring this to Linux has been stalled off-and-on for years. > YMMV now.
my understanding of CARP is that it is basicly the same thing that is called CLUSTERIP on the linux side. it is well supported by linux-ha David Lang _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
