I have two servers. They're not set up yet, but I plan to use them in failover. Half of the clients will be assigned to one machine, and half to the other. I'll use automated deployment tools (chef & vagrant, most likely) to maintain the machines. I'll use those same tools to maintain essentially identical(*) virtual images (virtualbox) of each machine, but on the other host. So, if one machine goes down, the other machine will boot up a VM of the dead machine and that VM will do the terminal service while the real machine is repaired. This means that if one machine dies, everyone has to operate on half the normal resources, but at least things don't stop altogether.
(*) The VM will look just like the normal machine in most ways, but I'll include some messages here and there so users will know if they're booting from the VM rather than the normal setup. I'm sure there are other ways to do what you want, too. :-) Lachele On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Louise Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear readers, > > I have a working single LTSP server setup and would like to extend it > with another server. > > How to add another server is described in > http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/edubuntu/handbook/C/multiple-server-setup.html > > but it seams to me, that each client still depends on the primary > server which acts as TFTP server and serves the NBD image. > > Is it possible to avoid this single point of failure and still utilize > the second server for sessions/applications? > > Lots of love, > Louise > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > -- :-) Lachele Lachele Foley CCRC/UGA Athens, GA USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
