Re: Suggestion for next release? [WAS Re: single load-balancer,multiple clusters?]

[Björn Metzdorf <bm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The suggestion: would it be possible to add a
> "priority load balancing" weighting option in one of
> the next releases, so that all the requests go to the
> server witht he lowest rating, and if ti becomes
> unavailable, the requests go the next lowest-rated
> server, and so?  I don;t imagine it would be too hard
> to implement?

LVS makes no assumptions about the status of the real server. This is not
LVS' job. What you need is keepalived (http://keepalived.sf.net), it will
take care of what you want (remove broken servers from pool, activate hot
standby, and so on).

Regards,
Bjoern