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Re: My first go...

To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, matthew.gregory@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: My first go...
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:45:26 -0400
Matt Gregory wrote:
> 
>
>     Thirdly, they are my directors for my LVS configuration.  Each of these
> two servers will run four LVS servers.

an LVS director forwards packets to several realservers delivering the same
service. It sounds like you have 4 servers delivering different services.

>         One for Apache (so that I can add more apache virtual hosts and/or
> move the apache "realserver" off of the nameserver).
>         One for my Zope/Apache workhorse server farm.
>         One for my Bea Servers.
>         One for my mail exchangers.
> 
>     Quesion #1: can LVS be used effectively to produce failover from one
> data center to another? 

The two machines may need to be on the same network, but I'm not sure.

>         a) my production servers are all Linux machines, will I need to
> patch the kernel for the ARP problem

yes for LVS-DR

>         c) is LVS_DR the way to go, or should I use NAT for my style of
> configuration?

either will do

Joe
-- 
Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center, 
mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA


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