On 11-09-24 02:43 PM, Vladislav Bogdanov wrote:
> 24.09.2011 16:21, mike wrote:
>> On 11-09-24 05:02 AM, Vladislav Bogdanov wrote:
>>> 23.09.2011 21:15, mike wrote:
>>>> Last year I set up an HA cluster with ldirector pointing to 2 load
>>>> balanced "real" servers. We had jboss on the backend listening to the
>>>> Real IP on port 8080. Initially, we could not get the backend to reply -
>>>> we kept getting refused connections when we tried going through the VIP.
>>>> Thanks to Horms and a few others, I had the app guy start up jboss
>>>> listening on all interfaces (0.0.0.0) and all was well - worked perfectly.
>>>>
>>>> Well now I'm told they want several more "instances" of jboss all
>>>> listening on the same port, 8080 and so starting up listening on 0.0.0.0
>>>> is not an option. My initial response was "guys, start each instance
>>>> listening to a different port - problem solved". They're not too happy
>>>> with this solution so I'm here asking - is there any way possible to
>>>> load balance to several jboss instances running on the same backend
>>>> servers and on the same port?
>>> (assuming you run linux)
>>> You can look at /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_nonlocal_bind tunable.
>>> Setting it to 1 allows you to configure applications to listen on
>>> non-existent IP address. And that address could be virtual, migrating
>>> over nodes. So, you have two clone instances of application, running on
>>> different nodes, and bound to the same non-wildcard address. Repeat for
>>> different application instances and addresses.
>>>
>>> This should help.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Vladislav
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>> Thanks Vladislav,
>>
>> If I understand you correctly then I should set ip_nonlocal_bind_tunable
>> to 1 on both backend servers (not the director servers) and then bind
>> the applications to the VIP on the same backend servers. I already have
>> the VIP added to the loopback on the backend servers.
> This way you can bind app to specific VIP, not to wildcard address. Just
> specify that VIP in their configuration.
> And you can remove VIP from loopbacks and leave it to pacemaker to place
> it on a real interface. From my experience, having address on loopback
> and then adding it to real interface does not always work fine. At least
> I had problems with IPSEC on such setups.
> Sure, You can bind several app instances to different specific VIPs and
> have them running in standby mode until VIP is migrated to that node.
>
> Vladislav
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Thanks again Vladislav,

I must be be missing a small piece here. I have a test cluster running 
load balancing to an Apache backend and so I'm trying to incorporate 
your suggestions but cant seem to get it to work.

Here is what I did (btw the cluster currently works in a LVS-DR 
configuration)

Since both backend servers are running Debian I changed 
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_nonlocal_bind from 0 to 1
I removed the VIP from the loopbacks
Changed Apache to start up listening on the VIP in 
/etc/apache2/ports.conf and restarted it

When I go back to the directors ipvsadm does not show the backend 
servers and I am unable to contact the webserver at the VIP.

Did I miss a step?

tks again.
-mike


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