[CentOS-es] (Kasens-G5000*4) + centOS = ¿Load Balancing?

2011-10-19 Thread Roger Martínez Hernández
Saludos, excelente día. Primero que nada, les comento que soy un supernovato en linux, pero me gusta experimentar y creo que es un buen inicio. Al grano: Tengo aproximadamente 6 wifi abiertas en los alrededores de mi hogar, cada que alguna no me va bien simplemente me salto a la siguiente y asi

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-08 Thread Iain Morris
I'm surprised to see so many choosing HAProxy over LVS, which seems fairly integrated into Red Hat's offerings, with full documentation and rpms in CentOS and RHN. I've set up LVS before for an internal java application and it seemed straightforward after understanding arptables, etc. Is HAProxy

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Iain Morris iain.t.mor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:36 AM, David Brian Chait dch...@invenda.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-07 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:36 AM, David Brian Chait dch...@invenda.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: however for my purpose open and free HAProxy remains best choice!! +1 for HAProxy; excellent piece of software. It really depends on your needs,

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-06 Thread Charles Polisher
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: A warning: round robin can be problematical. Amen. Consider what happens with round-robin DNS when one host stops working. Round-robin DNS will hand out the address of the failed host just as often as it did when it was all working. Some clients (applications) will

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-06 Thread Tim Dunphy
an interesting choice for low cost hardware load balancing appliances is coyote point http://www.coyotepoint.com/products/?gclid=CI6ri9jQu6cCFQbc4Aodmi1V4Q however for my purpose open and free HAProxy remains best choice!! On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Charles Polisher cpol...@surewest.net

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-06 Thread Lucian
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: however for my purpose open and free HAProxy remains best choice!! +1 for HAProxy; excellent piece of software. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-06 Thread David Brian Chait
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: however for my purpose open and free HAProxy remains best choice!! +1 for HAProxy; excellent piece of software. It really depends on your needs, if you are building a production ops environment then the last thing that

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Todd wrote: Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience with BigIP where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send traffic to

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Todd slackmoehrle.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is getting considerable traffic?  In the past I only have experience with BigIP where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Tim Dunphy
OK, so what's good? For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent. It handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows dynamic adding/removing of servers, as well as maintenance modes. It's very easy to install and configure. I'm using is as the backend to apache that is

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Tim Dunphy
also I forgot to mention for heartbeat I use keepalived http://www.keepalived.org/ I found hearbeat a little difficult to implement but keepalived by comparison is a breeze to setup. Forget about multiple A records. That's a naive approach and entirely unnecessary. As other's have pointed out

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Todd
Brian, Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your reply. OK, so what's good? For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent. It handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows dynamic adding/removing of servers, as well as maintenance modes.

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread James Nguyen
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Todd slackmoehrle.li...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your reply. OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host,

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
James Nguyen wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Todd slackmoehrle.li...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your reply. OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It snip if they think the solution requires a

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:18 PM, James Nguyen ja...@callfire.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Todd slackmoehrle.li...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your reply. OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/4/2011 1:18 PM, James Nguyen wrote: You want two boxes that run both haproxy + keepalived. This way you get the load balancing (HAProxy) plus the high availability (Keepalived) using a shared virtual IP for your two boxes. You can do maintenance on either one while traffic still

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread James Nguyen
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:25 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: James Nguyen wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Todd slackmoehrle.li...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your reply. OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Todd slackmoehrle.li...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your reply. OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host,

[CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Todd
Hi All, Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience with BigIP where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send traffic to the best server possible at the time. This was a proprietary

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 3, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Todd wrote: Hi All, Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience with BigIP where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send traffic to the best

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Sean Hart
On 3/3/11 3:51 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Todd wrote: Hi All, Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience with BigIP where you have a load balancing device that

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
Round robin DNS would balance load, but will cause problems if one of them goes down. Hi Sean, Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. So if I have 2 identical servers, each with there own IP, how will one of them going down cause issues? I'm assuming multiple A records for

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Sean Hart wrote: IPVS or LVS can work as a really simple/free solution: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/software/ipvs.html This was a very cool link. I see that if in mid stream a server goes down while one is on it, problems could arise as it won't be

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/03/11 4:12 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. So if I have 2 identical servers, each with there own IP, how will one of them going down cause issues? I'm assuming multiple A records for the same host will be handled fine by the client

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Ryan Ordway
On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:12 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Round robin DNS would balance load, but will cause problems if one of them goes down. Hi Sean, Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. So if I have 2 identical servers, each with there own IP, how will one of them

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:24 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 03/03/11 4:12 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. So if I have 2 identical servers, each with there own IP, how will one of them going down cause issues? I'm assuming multiple A records

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Ryan Ordway wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:12 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Round robin DNS would balance load, but will cause problems if one of them goes down. Hi Sean, Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. So if I have 2 identical servers,

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread David Brian Chait
Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience with BigIP where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send traffic to the best server possible at the time. This was a proprietary system

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hi All, | | Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is | getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience with | BigIP | where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send | traffic to | the best server

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=relaydapropos=0sektion=0manpath=OpenBSD+Currentarch=i386format=html I wouldn't be surprised if that what was in part driving those low cost appliance load balancers. Cool find, a definite book mark. - aurf

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Sean Hart
Hi Sean, Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. So if I have 2 identical servers, each with there own IP, how will one of them going down cause issues? I'm assuming multiple A records for the same host will be handled fine by the client lookup? example.com resolves

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Ryan Ordway rord...@oregonstate.edu wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:12 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Round robin DNS would balance load, but will cause problems if one of them goes down. Hi Sean, Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. So if I

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/3/11 7:56 PM, Sean Hart wrote: Hi Sean, Can you explain as I may be planning this for a site. So if I have 2 identical servers, each with there own IP, how will one of them going down cause issues? I'm assuming multiple A records for the same host will be handled fine by the

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread Jay Leafey
I've used round-robin DNS with good success, but I added some additional tweaks using Heartbeat to manage the actual addresses. A typical case is where you have two systems that will be used to offer a service. Each machine has it's own IP address, but in addition there are a pair of IPs for

[CentOS] Load-Balancing Virtualized Guests

2007-11-30 Thread Alvin Chang
Hi everyone: According to Automated failover and recovery of virtualized guests in Advanced Platform, one can easily migrate virtualized guests around different hosts. However, is it currently possible for CentOS 5 with VirtualizationClustering Suite to migrate guests dynamically according to