Cisco loadbalancer should have failover and the ability to time a
machine out if it is slow to respond, this will keep the load even on the
machines
My personal experience with clustercats 4.5 is that it worthless. Basicly
using a hardware LB you really don't need to use clustercats.
We use Intel7185 for our cluster, with these you can configure them to
trap error pages from going to clients. For example if you get a CF error
page you can configure CF to return a 404page instead. The LB will catch
this and send the request to the next machine. So if we have a machine get
hosed it will not take the site down or break everything. Its pretty handy
to have this ability. Im not sure if Cisco has this ablitity though.
Good Luck,
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Rusher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: CF Hardware Cluster
> "Integrated" load balancing and failover are only available with the
> Enterprise edition. You could certainly load balance the machines with
your
> LD, but you would not have the benefit of failover. Then there is OS
> clustering.
>
> Dual processors tend to have better performance (there are a lot of
> contingencies though). Faster disk access is always a plus.
>
> HTH
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob Rusher
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 8:31 AM
> Subject: CF Hardware Cluster
>
>
> > Heya all,
> >
> > I'm planning to cluster two web servers with a Cisco Load balanacer.
What
> > is the best hardware configuration for the two
> > web servers:
> >
> > 1) Single processor, 512 MB ram, single IDE drive
> > 2) Dual processor, 512 MB ram, single IDE drive
> >
> > or same configuration above but with dual 9 GB SCSI drives.
> >
> > Also, do you know if I can cluster with the CF 5 Professional version,
or
> do
> > I need CF 5 Enterprise.
> >
> > Thanks :)
> >
> > David Brooks
> >
> >
>
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