Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Clustering or app servers?

2013-09-06 Thread Robert Lefebvre
i have experimented with LDAP and had it working (I think) on what is now our back up server. So do I absolutely have to use LDAP to cluster servers? If so, I think I would opt to do a total new install on another box. With your experience does that seem like the best approach? Thanks On Thu,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Clustering or app servers?

2013-09-06 Thread Robert Mavrinac
On 06/09/13 09:22 AM, Robert Lefebvre wrote: i have experimented with LDAP and had it working (I think) on what is now our back up server. So do I absolutely have to use LDAP to cluster servers? No, you don't have to use LDAP to cluster the servers, but you should manage accounts from one

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Clustering or app servers?

2013-09-06 Thread Robert Lefebvre
Thanks Robert, Each teacher and each student have their own accounts and home directories so they all log on anywhere in the school. The teacher servers (i.e. machines) will be located by the teachers work desks mainly so they can keep a close eye on them. I'm using webmin as an administrative

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Clustering or app servers?

2013-09-05 Thread Robert Mavrinac
On 04/09/13 06:51 PM, Robert Lefebvre wrote: Hi, I'm not following the advantage of doing this with VMs. I've only dabbled with them but I'm thinking to add additional processing power to the network. If possible, I would like to scatter the servers throughout the school and have them

[Ltsp-discuss] Clustering or app servers?

2013-09-04 Thread Robert Lefebvre
We are currently running just one Edubuntu 12.04 server with a 6 core AMD processor and 32 GB of ram but I would like to add 1 or more other servers. I've looked at the ltspcluster.org site and for other tutorials but they all sort of start from scratch. What I was wondering was if I can add the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Clustering or app servers?

2013-09-04 Thread Robert Mavrinac
You should be able to install the ltsp packages easily. I put the ltsp-root, ltsp-loadbalancer and ltsp-cluster-control on one VM and run a number of application server VMs. Just make sure your application servers have the same configuration/packages once you start load balancing between them.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Clustering or app servers?

2013-09-04 Thread Robert Lefebvre
Hi, I'm not following the advantage of doing this with VMs. I've only dabbled with them but I'm thinking to add additional processing power to the network. If possible, I would like to scatter the servers throughout the school and have them double as workstations for the teachers too. I know the