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Re: [lvs-users] deciding among load balancers

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] deciding among load balancers
From: Michael Schwartzkopff <misch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:39:02 +0100
Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 12:28 schrieb Graeme Fowler:
> > [Is it correct that LVS provides failover semantics as well? Because
> > as far as I can tell, nginx doesn't, to get around this, we use DNS
> > based mechanism so we have more than one nginx server registered, but
> > of course this is less than ideal]
>
> LVS in and of itself does not provide failover; there are several tools
> available which provide healthcheck and failover capability which allow
> you to manage both your load balancers themselves and the "real" servers
> they're talking to.

LVS and the configuration daemon ldirectord integrates very nicely into 
Linux-HA (aka heartbeat). Very simple to setup such a high available load 
balancer.

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