Re: [ZODB-Dev] Clustering ZEO Server with drbd

2006-05-29 Thread Christian Theune
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking at making a scalable zope infrastructure, I can scale the ZEO clients and mysql, the only issue is the ZEO server. I have used drbd and heartbeat in the past to create a HA lamp stack. From a technical standpoint, is there any reason I could not us

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Clustering ZEO Server with drbd

2006-05-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you setup drbd and heartbeat , the spare will take over the floating ip from the zeo server and restart the service. drbd is simply doing a block level replication of the zeo server file system where the zeo data is stored. The question is what files needs to be replicated so that when the the s

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Clustering ZEO Server with drbd

2006-05-29 Thread Christian Theune
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you setup drbd and heartbeat , the spare will take over the floating ip from the zeo server and restart the service. drbd is simply doing a block level replication of the zeo server file system where the zeo data is stored. The question is what files needs to be repl

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Clustering ZEO Server with drbd

2006-05-29 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29 May 2006, at 16:45, Christian Theune wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking at making a scalable zope infrastructure, I can scale the ZEO clients and mysql, the only issue is the ZEO server. I have used drbd and heartbeat i

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Clustering ZEO Server with drbd

2006-05-29 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29 May 2006, at 16:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you setup drbd and heartbeat , the spare will take over the floating ip from the zeo server and restart the service. drbd is simply doing a block level replication of the zeo server file sy

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Clustering ZEO Server with drbd

2006-05-29 Thread Benji York
Christian Theune wrote: In the end, this might not be exactly HA because you'll have a period of time that isn't covered and may stretch for quite a while. An interesting idea: use drdb to create an HA pair for the read/write ZEO service, and also use a read-only ZRS secondary. That way when

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Clustering ZEO Server with drbd

2006-05-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am planning a ERP5 deployment with ZEO. I have a working HA configuration on Centos 4.3 (should work without changes on RHEL4 but I have not tested) and  am willing  to contribute  it all to the community  if I can get help clustering ZEO. I will write a howto and contribute back to the zope docu

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Clustering ZEO Server with drbd

2006-05-29 Thread Dieter Maurer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at 2006-5-28 19:30 -0700: >Hi folks, I'm looking at making a scalable zope infrastructure, I can scale >the ZEO clients and mysql, the only issue is the ZEO server. I have used drbd >and heartbeat in the past to create a HA lamp stack. From a technical >standpoint, is the

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Clustering ZEO Server with drbd

2006-05-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have two IBM xseries servers dedicated to this project at my datacenter. I am looking for anyone with zeo experience and expertise interested in working on this. I think this will make a HA zope infrastructure more attractive to the enterprise. I am also willing to do all the documentation and QA