Re: Has anyone used Mac OS X for a real server in LVS/DR ?

[Malcolm Turnbull <Malcolm.Turnbull@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the help. (and thanks for the great software)

Installed two loadbalancers in failover config for pyplia.com yesterday.

Mandrake 9, Heartbeat, LVS & Ldirectord
LVS in DR mode

The real servers were a mixture of Solaris & Mac OS X

Solaris needed :

ifconfig lo0:1 plumb
ifconfig lo0:1 <vip-addr> netmask 255.255.255.255 up


Mac OS X needed :

ifconfig lo0 alias VIP netmask 255.255.255.255 -arp up

They are planning to build this up to 20 VIPs and 40 real servers as and 
when they get enough customers (ASP business model).
The alternative they were considering was 2 * Foundry Server Iron....


Regards,
Malcolm