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Re: LVS with a few LinuxDirector

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Subject: Re: LVS with a few LinuxDirector
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:36:27 +0900
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.

-- 
Horms
        


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