Yeah, thanks everyone for your responses. I'll most likely be testing a
bunch of these in the coming weeks and months to find the one I think
works the best. I'll try and post some results when I'm done. So far
just from the reading I think my best bets are Lustre, GFS, and OCFS2.
The cluster list also had some mention about GlusterFS that I'm curious
about.
Also, I did some more research on the MySQL end of things and have
decided that replication is the way to go. Thanks Hanni for that nice
graphic.
Brian
Kevin wrote:
Brian Kroth wrote:
Hello all,
I currently manage about 40 Window, OSX, and Hardened Gentoo servers. I
will soon have 12 P4 servers that were previously used as video encoders
free as well as an Apple XRaid. With all this spare hardware I thought
I'd research setting up a cluster of servers running Apache for load
balancing and high availability. I'm also looking into a MySQL cluster,
but that wouldn't require a shared filesystem. I'm wondering if anyone
has done something like this before and in particular knows a good
filesystem to use so that each of the servers can access and potentially
write to the same storage array. I've accomplished the same thing with
XServes running OSX, but they like to charge you a pretty penny for the
XSan software that allows this which I thought I'd try to avoid if
possible. So far I've seen only GFS, but haven't gotten much reading
done on it yet. Any other tips or insights would be appreciated as well.
Thanks,
Brian
You may want to consider OpenAFS: http://www.openafs.org/
Not really sure if this is what you're after or not, but since there have
been several ideas mentioned in this thread in response to your post
already, I thought I'd mention it in case you're not aware of it.
HTH.
-Kevin
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