Thanks much :) Alex
On May 20, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/20/2015 9:59 AM, Alex wrote: >> Do I need rpcbind runing on haproxy , ? we are trying to use the haproxy >> to load balance across GlusterFS for NFS using mode tcp >> but i get connection refused port 111 . > > NFS as a protocol is fairly complicated, like passive FTP in some ways. > An initial connection goes to RPC, the client is informed about what > port the requested service is using, and then a new connection is made. > Making a protocol like that work with haproxy is challenging. It's > possible, but not completely straightforward. > > I have a gluster install. We are phasing it out, but we had a similar > need -- high availability. > > What I did to achieve this was install ucarp on a pair of the gluster > peers. If the active machine fails, the shared IP address migrates to > the other one, where NFS is still available. I have separate monitoring > to make sure that the NFS process is active on each of those servers. > > Here's something else advising a similar approach: > > http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/77102 > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
