On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:19:03PM +0800, Leonard Soetedjo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the world clustering, and would like to ask a question regarding
> LVS.
>
> Is it possible to have a few LinuxDirector (> 5) and all of them managing all
> the realservers? From most, if not all tutorials/HOWTO, I read that there's
> only one LinuxDirector and a backup one (not active).
>
> As an example to my question, the client will be redirected to one of the
> LinuxDirectors by using DNS Round Robin (or if there's a better suggestion, I
> would surely welcome it). The LinuxDirector would then schedule it to one of
> the realservers. This is different from the config of each LinuxDirector
> with its own realservers. In the latter case, if a LinuxDirector is down,
> the realservers under it will not be able to process anything (if not
> considering the backup LinuxDirector).
Yes, this can be done.
> Secondly, if I can have a few LinuxDirectors active, is it possible to have 1
> or 2 backup server to takeover just about anyone of the LinuxDirectors? Or
> do I have to get 1 backup for each LinuxDirectors?
You can have 1 backup for all of the Linux Directors.
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Horms
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