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Re: Server Load Balancing Registration Protocol and LVS

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Server Load Balancing Registration Protocol and LVS
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:31:20 +0900
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:05:54PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2003-10-10T12:08:15,
>    "William V. Wollman" <wwollman@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> 
> >   We have worked with LVS to implement something we call the Server Load
> > Balancing Registration Protocol.  It allows a server to plug into a
> > network with the LVS and register it services with the LVS. 
> 
> Cool! Is that based on the Service Location Protocol?
> 
> > The LVS is then automatically configured to balance the services
> > registered.  We did not modify LVS directly but created a Java program
> > that processes the real server registration messages and then
> > automatically configures the LVS.  The real server requires the
> > installation of a Java program to build the registration messages and
> > register its services.   One benefit is plug and play SLB with minimal
> > administration.  Another benefit is controlled configuration
> > management.
> 
> Yes, that sounds good. Automatic discovery is certainly helpful. Though
> I'd be a bit worried about a Java program, but that's because of my bad
> experiences with their resource utilization ;-)

I thought I should throw this fish into the fire.
Feedbackd has some of this capability as well.
http://www.redfishsoftware.com.au/

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Horms
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