Re: clustering question.......
On 4/18/06, Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 18, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Wright Jim Contr 14MDSS/SGSI wrote: > > Hallo ! > > > > I'm sure there is some info on this, but I can't seem to find it. > > > > I guess what I'm looking for is the "FreeBSD Clustering for Dummies" > > guide. > > Dummies aren't qualified to set up a cluster, I'm afraid. > > You should start by determining what services the system needs to > provide, what kind of reliability and uptime is desired, and what the > budget is for hardware and software. If the budget is less than mid > 5-digits (compare to low-to-mid 6-digits if doing Windows, say a > clustered SQLServer solution), you aren't going to be able to > configure a "true cluster" [1] with no single point of failure. > i'd say that figure may be a little high, but i agree with your sentiment. you could "easily" create a web server cluster by putting your httpd nodes behind a software load balancer (a BSD box running PF/CARP or somesuch solution), and you would have created a cluster of web servers that will provide you with a reasonable amount of redundancy. this will provide one form of clustering. granted, this is just one type of clustering computers together - which is much differnet than say building a farm of machines to compute data in unison. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: clustering question.......
On Apr 18, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Wright Jim Contr 14MDSS/SGSI wrote: Hallo ! I'm sure there is some info on this, but I can't seem to find it. I guess what I'm looking for is the "FreeBSD Clustering for Dummies" guide. Dummies aren't qualified to set up a cluster, I'm afraid. You should start by determining what services the system needs to provide, what kind of reliability and uptime is desired, and what the budget is for hardware and software. If the budget is less than mid 5-digits (compare to low-to-mid 6-digits if doing Windows, say a clustered SQLServer solution), you aren't going to be able to configure a "true cluster" [1] with no single point of failure. -- -Chuck [1]: Most people don't realize that the Microsoft cluster solutionsrequires both a separate machine from the clustered servers as a domain controller to manage the cluser, *and* it requires a highly reliable NAS or SAN backend filestorage being available, which is absolutely vital to the cluster staying sane. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: clustering question.......
Have a look at HUT (High Uptime Project) : http://www.bsdshell.net and http://www.aims.com.au/chris/cluster/ and http://sporner.dyndns.org/freebsdcluster/ (sometimes down ;)) http://www.leidinger.net/cgi-bin/search.pl?q=cluster&num=10 http://nrez.net/~rmger/fbsdcluster/cluster-doc.html http://acme.ecn.purdue.edu/ http://blizzard.rwic.und.edu/~nordlie/miniwulf/ Try MPICH and LAM/MPI -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wright Jim Contr 14MDSS/SGSI Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: clustering question... Hallo ! I'm sure there is some info on this, but I can't seem to find it. I guess what I'm looking for is the "FreeBSD Clustering for Dummies" guide. I am fairly comfortable with FreeBSD itself, but clustering is still new to me. Any simple suggestions are greatly appreciated as well as pointing me to somewhere else on the Web, etc. Please use small words.=0) Thanks a bunch for any and all help offered ! jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: clustering question.......
On 4/18/06, Wright Jim Contr 14MDSS/SGSI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo ! > > I'm sure there is some info on this, but I can't seem to find it. > > I guess what I'm looking for is the "FreeBSD Clustering for Dummies" > guide. > I am fairly comfortable with FreeBSD itself, but clustering is still new > to me. > > Any simple suggestions are greatly appreciated as well as pointing me to > somewhere else on the Web, etc. > Please use small words.=0) > clustering is a pretty broad topic. you may find it more helpfull to first define the issue you are facing at hand. would you like to create a farm of servers running httpd for example? or maybe you would like to string a bunch of computers together to crunch data sets. in any event, if you define to us exactly what you are trying to accomplish we should be able to help more. HTH. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
clustering question.......
Hallo ! I'm sure there is some info on this, but I can't seem to find it. I guess what I'm looking for is the "FreeBSD Clustering for Dummies" guide. I am fairly comfortable with FreeBSD itself, but clustering is still new to me. Any simple suggestions are greatly appreciated as well as pointing me to somewhere else on the Web, etc. Please use small words.=0) Thanks a bunch for any and all help offered ! jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
