As Alan mentioned, VIPA won't accomplish this. But, there are Open Source packages that will allow you to set up a High Availability (HA) cluster with your Linux/390 guests. Tivoli Systems Automation will certainly do the job, but at a much, much higher cost.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Schilla Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: VIPA and hot standby > Hi, I have been looking over the list for an example of what I wish to > accomplish but have not seen this particular config. I am running SLES 8 > under zVM 4.4. I have installed VSWITCH with 2 vswitch controllers in case > one fails or I must take one down. These are associated with 2 gige > OSA-Express each connected to a separate Cisco 3550 running HSRP. This > gives me a hot standby switch in case my primary Cisco fails. I want to > extend this to WAS edge servers under linux where 2 linux guests are > running edge server. If the primary were to fail the second or secondary > would automatically pick up the inbound requests. I have been told to use > vipa. How do I configure the duplicate addresses? How does linux > "heartbeat" between the 2 servers and identify the loss of the primary? > How does the secondary "giveback" when the primary returns? Would I be > better off to load-share and use DNS round-robin against duplicate servers > rather than hot standby? Are there any SHARE docs or other documentation > that give an example of how this is configured? > Thanks For Your Help, > Al Schilla > State of Minnesota ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
