On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Brian Bell wrote:
I do not need an HPC cluster. We're talking Apache here - not physics calculations.
disclaimer: I'm the LVS-HOWTO maintainer and have been with the LVS project since 1999. LVS is designed to handle failover and high throughput of services like http.
So - my questions are thus: - Does anyone have any strong opinions on a particular HA system/project ? - Can anyone compare OpenSSI v. Ultramonkey
UtraMonkey is an HA wrapper around LVS. It comes with all the files for LVS and is a popular way to set up an LVS. There are other ways of handling failover for LVS: eg mon and vrrp. The UltraMonkey author is busy and is hard to get ahold of. However the LVS mailing list is full of people who've set it up if you need help.
Usually we hear of other technologies of interest to LVS users on the mailing list. Noone has ever talked about OpenSSI or OpenQRM on the LVS mailing list.
- Has anyone used commercial cluster service providers such as the Scyld platform at Penguin Computing?
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