2009/9/14 Michael Schwartzkopff <[email protected]>: > Am Montag, 14. September 2009 18:30:26 schrieb Ciro Iriarte: >> Hi, i'm planning to build a postfix+cyrus Active/Active cluster and >> would like to know if anybody has done something similar. My main >> doubt is about using ClusterIP or a loadbalancer with LVS in front of >> the two nodes. LVS would imply a third machine and i'm not sure how >> the origin of the outgoing connections (IP address) is handled by >> ClusterIP. >> >> Any comments?. > > Well, LVS does not nescessarly need a third machine. See: > http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS- > HOWTO.localnode.html#two_box_lvs > > I would use two machines and put the following software on the machines: > - Mail Application: potfix, cyrus > - Load Balancer: LVS, ldirectord > - pacmaker for the high availability. > > then you have high availabiliy, load balancing and nearly unlimited > scalability. ldirectord integrates very nicely into a pacemaker cluster. > > Please feel free to contact me for further question. > > Greetings, > > -- > Dr. Michael Schwartzkopff > MultiNET Services GmbH > Addresse: Bretonischer Ring 7; 85630 Grasbrunn; Germany > Tel: +49 - 89 - 45 69 11 0 > Fax: +49 - 89 - 45 69 11 21 > mob: +49 - 174 - 343 28 75 > > mail: [email protected] > web: www.multinet.de > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: 85630 Grasbrunn > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München HRB 114375 > Geschäftsführer: Günter Jurgeneit, Hubert Martens >
Is that configuration reliable?, have you used it in production?. Would that be better thatn ClusterIP?. Sounds great to drop that SPOF. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com -- _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
