Hi all, I am quite new to LVS, and learned about it initially as a part of Redhat Enterprise Servers. Because of that I initially thought that redhat was the primary resource for clustering and load balancing, but thanks to the linuxvirtualservers.org site I now see that there are many options.
The one thing that I do not see on the website, presumably because it is opinion based, is a comparison of the various resources available to achieve HA load balancing. To that end I pose this question: What do you feel is the "best" (in terms of reliability, ease of maintenance, etc) option to pursue when attempting to create an LVS? As a followup I will pose a pretty simple scenario (mine) in which we would use this solution: 6 redhat linux webservers (rhel5) running apache and resin (java). Resin handles it's own load balancing internally, so the only real issue here is apache. My aspirations are to introduce a solution that allows us to have a single IP dns entry (as opposed to our current round robin setup), and have new clients sent to the realserver that is least in use. Another critical component is monitoring the realserver to ensure that port 80 is still answering, and to stop sending clients there if it isn't. Pretty straightforward for this setup, right? So if you had to set this up and sell it as a reliable HA system to your boss(es), which software package would you use for this? Piranha, Ultramonkey, Keepalived? Thank you so much, your opinion is important to me. If this topic has been covered ad nauseum in a place that I have not found, please feel free to point me in the right direction! Thanks, Nick _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
