On Thursday 21 June 2007 09:39, Malcolm wrote: > Rio, > > If so, is there a 'best model'? I suspect the NAT model would be what we need. > > > Or do the NAT on your firewall and use DR.
will research that. > > The control box would be a 2 processor dual-core opteron so it effectively > > would have 4 processors and maybe 8gb or more ram. > > > Good grief! Why not just use 2 servers P4, 1GB RAM (or less) control > boxes as a high availability pair? i found out from another message that the director does not need a lot of horsepower, so I will plan on two single processor 1G ram machines which will handle enough connections for a long time before they need upgrading and then it will just be more ram or a second processor. heh they will probably turn to dust before they need updating anyway :) > > Do you think we could get away with one 'control' box considering the > > bandwidth usage? All internal networks are gigabit. If needed we can easily > > feed the control box via more than one 'public' interface separated by > > networks. > > > DR yes, NAT probably you said 70GB/mo each? doesn't sound a lot and > doesn't mean much how many GB/s & connections/s? > > i was referring to a few of the more busy websites. generally our fastE internet connection averages a continuous 5 to 7 MB/s, 24/7 with lots of peaks from there, some as high as 20MB/s. abouit 70% of this comes from services, the rest from dedicated connections. we consider the average just mentioned the 'background noise' that we count from :) > > Once I have some guidelines, I will know where/how to study and begin > > implementation/testing. At this moment I am ignorant of clustering > > technology, I only have an idea what I want to do. > > > > > Always a good way to start. > > Regards, > Malcolm. > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] > Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users > -- Rio _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
