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Re: do we need seperate LVS / load balancer machine?

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Subject: Re: do we need seperate LVS / load balancer machine?
From: Manuel Arostegui Ramirez <manuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:20:40 +0200
On Thursday 19 April 2007 13:10:41 Bala wrote:
> Hi All,
>        we are new to the LVS, considering one
> of the option to use for our project, for that
> we need some clarification before we jump in
> to LVS.
>
>   For the web service we have two machine, shall
> we install LVS in one of the machine and configure
> VIP (virtual IP) so that user always connect to VIP
> and the two servers serve the http traffic.
>
>  1. Our question is shall we achive this two server
>     itself, or do we need third server to do the
>     load balance, pls advice.
>
> thanks,
> -bala-

It's much better if you use LVS+Keepalive (or ultramonkey or whatever) in the 
same machine, and behind that one, two apaches waiting for connections.
Hope this helps.

-- 
Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.

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