On 29/10/12 4:15 PM, "Fuchs, Andreas (SwissTXT)" <andreas.fu...@swisstxt.ch> wrote:
>Hi > >In our CloudStack POC we found out that the intergrate Loadbalancer lacks >some, for us, mandatory feartures: >As example: >- active, backup configs >- Customized health checks (request "healtcheScript.php", test answer for >containing string) >- url hash loadbalancing > >And nice to have: >- cookie insertion >- client source ip transparent mode for service where x-header injection >is not working Andi, There is session stickiness functionality in CloudStack with support for both application generated and load balancer generated cookies. But support for health monitoring and URL hashing does not exist. Can you please raise a enhancement request? >Now the questions, as we understand CS uses HAproxy for LB. So is it >possible to edit the HAproxy rules manually? Or will this mess things up >with the CS config? You could do that, but configuration is not persisted as virtual router is stateless. On network restart, virtual router recreate etc CloudStack will only re-configure the load balancing rules based on what configuration it has in the CloudStack DB. >If we inegrate a Hardware loadbalancer like the NetScaller will the full >features of the NetScaler be available to us? If yes how, via the GUI, >API or directly on the NetScaler? No, full feature set of NetScaler is not directly available if you use load balancing functionality available through CloudStack. Having said that CloudStack has flexible networking models. In a public cloud a tenant can launch NetScaler VPX as VM in the deployment model shown in slide 21 of [1]. In this case tenant can fully use the NetScaler functionality. Also cloud admin can by-pass CloudStack entirely and can provision network service using the firewall and load balancer devices not managed by CloudStack. Downside is that CloudStack won't orchestrate setting up load balancing and tenants can not self-service. But this may work in enterprise/private clouds. >And if all this is not going to work, how do you best integrate an >External Loadbalancer? Paralell to the CS Router Appliance or behind/in >front of the CS Router. Can I ask what is the kind of deployment you are looking for? Do you intend to provide LB as a service to the tenants (users)? If not, and want fully leverage Haproxy or NetScaler's load balancing functionality then IMO, you can restrict CS router appliance to provide just DNS and DHCP services, and setup data path through gateway and load balancer devices that you can control. -Murali >(We are using an advanced network config with VLAN isolation, we are open >to change this if it solves our problem) > > >Best regards >Andi > > [1] http://www.slideshare.net/cloudstack/cloudstack-networking
