Hello Jake, i am probably the only one at inverse who did a MariaDB Gallera cluster with PacketFence.
In this setup i have 4 servers, 2 for PacketFence (garb is intalled on one of them) and 2 for the MariaDB gallera cluster and the idea was to load balance with haproxy the sql connections between both db server. (PacketFence sql request vs radius sql request). So your assumptions are right, most of PacketFence's services are running active/active (except pfmon and pfdhcplistener) and the db only run on one of them (2 servers setup). Btw in active setup if one of the server crash (not just radius) then the second server will fetch the vip and start to process radius on the radius load balancer process. (you have 3 radius process, one for auth, another one for acct and the last one for load balancing). The radius load balancing process will act as a proxy to load balance the radius request on both server, haproxy will do the same for http/https request. If you need more details fell free to ask more questions. Regards Fabrice Le 2016-10-11 à 17:46, Sallee, Jake a écrit : > I am reading through the Active/Active documentation and it mentions that the > DB portion can be made active/active using Maria Galera. > > What are the benefits/drawbacks of going with the MariaDB route vs the MySQL > route? > > I read in the MariaDB Galera docs that you really need at least 3 servers. > > Also, if I am reading the info correctly, the clustering is setup so all the > services other than the DB are running in an active/active capacity, right? > > So if one of my servers has the radius process stop for whatever reason the > other will keep going and while they are both running they can share the load > correct? > > Sorry for the scattered nature of this message, I'm pressed for time ATM. > > Please feel free to chime in with any and all feelings and advice ... on this > issue. > > Jake Sallee > Godfather of Bandwidth > System Engineer > University of Mary Hardin-Baylor > WWW.UMHB.EDU > > 900 College St. > Belton, Texas > 76513 > > Fone: 254-295-4658 > Phax: 254-295-4221 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > PacketFence-users mailing list > PacketFence-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list PacketFence-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
