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On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 05:25:51PM -0400, Carl wrote:
> It's nice having options, but...
>
> Would people mind sharing their experiences using any of the above LVS
> packages? They seem to provide the same basic thing, albeit in different and
> interesting ways. What have people found to be the advantages/disadvantages
> of each for different applications? I'll offer my own (limited) observations
> to get things started, based on looking at the various Web sites and a lab
> install of UltraMonkey. Please jump in and correct anything I might have
> wrong here:
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> UltraMonkey (http://ultramonkey.org) has a nice set of tools and sample
> configurations. Seems to work pretty well and was easy to set up. They use
> heartbeat for HA and provide ldirectord for LVS stuff.
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> It looks like keepalived (http://keepalived.sourceforge.net/) dispenses with
> heartbeat in favor of their own vrrp implementation. Real failover, right? No
> backup serial connection that I can tell, but IPSEC for the advertisement
> broadcasts (nice). One deamon does both LVS stuff and failover?
Not to undermine keepalived, which I think is a good piece
of software. But heartbeat also has security measures
for its communication channels.
--
Horms
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