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> > I need to build 2 (initially ) redhat boxes. (probably RHS - ES ) I
> > really like RH9 but need the up2date stuff.
> Yum might help here. Though I don't know which direction they
> are going
> after 9.0.
http://www.whiteboxlinux.com/ (free unsupported RH-Enterprise from SRPM) is
also an option. YUM is very nice. I logged onto fedora-legacy IRC to see
how long they will be supporting legacy RH such as RH9 for and the answer
was they don't foresee an endpoint yet. So ~2-3 years is reasonable.
Note : if you go whiteboxlinux, be sure to use YUM with them too...
> > There is also "Red Hat Cluster Suite", but being a small
> startup, we are
> > trying to keep costs down as much as possible.
Is that what they are calling it now? I think http://www.ultramonkey.org/
or http://www.keepalived.org/ is a much better long-term solution.
> > With the boxes i am building , they really need to be clustered. I
> > understand the concept of clustering, but i have a couple
> of gaps that I do
"Blueprints for High Availability" is a good book if outdated, its available
on Amazon. For LVS clustering I think Horms documentation is the easiest to
understand. http://www.ultramonkey.org/2.0.1/topologies/. When you need
specific information download Joe's LVS-HOWTO and do a grep search through
it. (It's _really_ loaded with goodies).
> > not understand. (BTW - is there a clustering for dummies? )
You mean like Microsoft? ;-)
> check out Mon from kernel.org and/or the Ganglia project.
What the heck is Ganglia? It sounds like an infectious disease!
Cheers,
P
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