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Absolutely.
My problem here is not that I have to try to sell LVS to my bosses, but
that I have to sell Linux to them. IBM has been a big help. I think that
LVS will sell itself. I'm not sure they realize it yet, but IBM offers an
off-the-shelf load balancing solution by running <distro> Linux on their
Netfinity Servers.
Bobby Moore Worldspan
bobby.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Horms
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Subject: Re: Scalability
05/16/2000
11:57 AM
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:38:38AM -0400, bobby.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> My LVS's had a ONE-TIME cost of around $50.00, and access to a broom
closet
> full of discarded p133's and p200's. For that $50 I also got 'heartbeat',
> mon, ipchains, iptraf, power tools, a programmable unix environment, a
> plethora of monitoring and benchmarking tools, enough routers, firewalls,
> and virtual servers to potentially put throughout our entire enterprise,
> and TONS of free help and support, not to mention my company's
appreciation
> to solutions to some problems that have been dogging us for quite some
> time. I haven't had a throughput problem yet. I haven't stress-tested it
> yet. But my plan is to simply add another LVS and use DNS to round-robin
> them - something we're doing today with another product. To me, the
> potential of this is enormous. I'm starting to see the huge benefit of
open
> source. This is not a marketing pitch. Marketing is not my business.
There
> is a beauty to LVS, and as a programmer I'd rather have this type product
> to run on this type of system to do what I want with, and produce
products
> that will work for me, and to give my 'clients' what they want, rather
then
> have them play by my rules. My bent, of course, is that of a programmer
and
> not a network guy.
>
> Bobby Moore Worldspan
> bobby.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Wow, can we quote you on that? I think that the LVS page could do with
some comments like that.
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Horms
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