This looks to be exactly what I was talking about, Thank You!
-----Original Message----- From: Eric Balsa [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 11:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Using Multiple/Redundant Backend Origins There's also http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/trafficserver/plugins/trunk/balancer/ which is recent code from Y! Someone would need to take that code & run with it since it's a little bit raw right now. I dont think it does any health checking, etc but just rotates requests among the set of hosts described in the config. --Eric On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Jason Giedymin <[email protected]> wrote: > I think most would suggest DNS round robin for more advanced > capability I believe some would suggest a custom plug-in On Nov 18, > 2011, at 10:27 AM, sridhar basam wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Petzel, David > <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> This feels like it's about clustering ATS servers, not the origins >> behind it? Our design would like something like this: >> >> LOAD BALANCERS à POOL OF ATS SERVERS à POOL OF ORIGINS. In our case >> the origin is the application server. >> >> >> >> So we would have say an Active/Passive LB Pair as the externally >> presented host. Behind that VIP would be a pool of 3 or more ATS >> servers (for >> redundancy) and each ATS server would use a POOL of origins. From >> the examples I've seen it appears that there is an assumption by ATS >> that the Origin is a VIP, and thus its extracted itself from managing >> a pool of hosts for a single origin? >> >> >> >> Additionally I saw that there are mapping configurations for using >> multiple (different) origins. The ATS Server Pool, seems pretty >> straightforward, but specifically I'm trying to find how I would >> craft a mapping rule such multiple origins for the same mapping. > > You could put the origin's behind the LBs too or make the origin an > DNS round-robin record. > I don't know what ATS would do with these records though, ie if it > does auto-rotation on lookups and if it fails from unresponsive/dead > IPs on a connect. > Sridhar >
