I'm going to third this suggestion. I ran a LVS cluster at a former company for several years - built on cast off hardware (so the cost was just my $TIME). About a year after I left, they dropped this down and put in place a "real" solution that cost just a bit more then $20k. The site went from 0% downtime over a 4 years to periodic outages... (of course it only went down during peak use :-)
LVS is surprisingly robust... and you have direct access to the maintainer of the HOWTO! <aside: shouldn't Joe give a talk about LVS?> Jon Carnes On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 09:10, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 01:55:04 -0800 (PST) > Joseph Mack NA3T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Chris Bullock wrote: > > > > > We are possibly getting ready to start supporting a vendor > > > that can use load balancing. What are the preferred > > > vendors and models for load balancers? > > > > How about LVS. > > > > (disclaimer - I maintain the LVS HOWTO) > > > > Joe > > I'd have to second Joe---I've been running a pair of LVS boxes in a > hot-standby configuration for almost the last two years and have never > had any problems at all, though my configuration isn't particularly > exotic, either. > > They're cheap 2Ghz P4s with 512MB, but they're handling several > megabits of traffic with load averages of 0, and I expect them to scale > a much further. The hardware probably cost less than $2K. > > I am at best a talented amateur when it comes to network stuff, so it > did take some time to wrap my head around how things needed to be set > up to support LVS-DR, but once the lightbulb went on, the actual > configuration of the software---I'm using ldirectord and heartbeat---was > simple. > > Mike. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
