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Kevin Goddard - System Admin wrote:
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> Unlike the subject suggests, I am not a complete Newbie, actually far from
> it. What I need, however, is basic information for LVS. Here are my
> questions, if anyone can help or point me to the answers
> I would appreciate it.
> 1. How many servers will one LVS Director support? I thought I read
> something like 8 to 1?
we haven't found the limit yet (no-one has enough machines). The load on a VS-DR
director is light - it's really only forwarding.
> 2. What is a good hardware configuration for the LVS Director? We are going
> to start off with a small web farm to see how it works out, say one LVS
> Director and three webservers.
I'm running 6 realservers with a 75MHz director in a test setup. Load average is
very light (<0.2) on the director, while the realservers are
running at loadaverage of 5-6
> 3. Do I need multiple ethernet cards?
you can run with 1NIC on each machine. see HOWTO
> 4. Does LVS install okay on a clean install of Red Hat 6.2? If not what is
> a good version of Red Hat to use?
don't know
> 5. What are the install steps, I tried to follow through in the HOW TO but
> it seemed kind of chopy (though I may need to just try it once to get a feel
> for it).
I agree with the description of the current HOWTO :-) It was better than the one
before and it will get better in the next iteration.
Next alternative is the LVS webpage.
> 7. Do I need to install lvs-gui before or after LVS? Does it install LVS as
> well? Again I am getting lost in some of the documentation.
lvs-gui configures the installed code.
Joe
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contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center,
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