Hello Chuck, I believe you will find DRBD + Heartbeat an option for what you want. This page in the wiki has some info on how to set it up:
http://oldwiki.linux-vserver.org/Vserver+DRBD Ruben Em Qui, Junho 21, 2007 02:09, Chuck escreveu: > I am in the idea stage for something I am not positive is entirely worth > the > effort and I am in totally uncharted territory. > > I am not sure what terminology is i am looking for here... what i am > thinking > i want to do is: > > have 2 hosts one a mirror of the other including all vserver guests etc. > the 2 > machines are identical in every way. > > rather than have the mirror machine on 'standby' waiting for some fateful > day > it is needed, i would like both servers and all guests to be running > simultaneously. this would be accomplished by having everything running > unique private network ip addresses. this would allow adding > additional 'mirror' machines as necessary. > > the existing public ips from the production server we have running would > be > moved to some 'control' computer which would have a listing of the > private > ips that would serve what the public ip wants and would call on either one > as > needed. if one of the private ip servers doesnt respond (down) the control > computer would simply choose the working ip until the first one comes back > online. > > what do i need to do in the 'control' machine to accomplish this? is this > some > kind of configuration that already exists in the linux distro? we run > gentoo. > beowolf (whatever that is)? > > is there another way of accomplishing what i wish to do? also how messy > will > keeping the mirror machines 'in sync' be? would i be better off having > all > machines but the controller share a common nfs mount for all the guests? > > some of these virtual servers are very high volume usage so if all the > data > must route through the control computer, i am thinking that computer would > have to be a monster. or maybe have several control computers each > handling a > different class of service. > > sorry if i sound like i have no clue what i am talking about, but that is > the > truth :) , i only think i know what i want to accomplish. > > > -- > > Chuck > > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > -- Rúben Leote Mendes -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
