Re: How to change the names on Load Balancers

[James Bromberger <jbromberger@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sure, no worries.

BTW, we're really impressed with the takeover time without new setup of 
ultramonkey + LVS compared to Piranha, especially with ipvs_syncmaster 
and ipvs_syncbackup. We're running under 2.6 kernel, and having 
ldirectord running all the time with heartbeat only taking service IP 
addresses up and down (NAT mode) so external service and internal 
router address move, we can fail across with connections held in state 
in less than half a second. Its really, really impressive. Well done to 
all involved.

  James Bromberger


On 5 Jul 2004, at 05:03, Horms wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> thanks for this. I have taken the liberty of forwarding your
> message to the linux-ha list as it is relevant to heartbeat,
> and the linux-ha list is the home of discussion of that software.
>
> Thanks again
>
> --
> Horms
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> Subject: How to change the names on Load Balancers
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> Hi all.
>
> We're using UltraMonkey (ldirector and heartbeat) on a pair of hosts.
> As they were being added in to replace an older pair, we called them by
> some temporary names ('oldhostname-A-new' and 'oldhostname-B-new') as
> we eased them in. Now we needed to change their names (to the hosts
> they replaced), but since hostnames are used in HA setup, there is a
> procedure to get this done with no downtime. Here is what we have just
> done, posted just to add to collective knowledge (unless someone has
> already posted this or it is a FAQ, in which case I am sorry for the
> noise):
>
>
> Overview: host A needs to become host C and B needs to become host D.
>
>
> A: Make A (host that will become C) active load balancer: hb_takeover.
>
> B: /etc/init.d/heartbeat stop; vi /etc/ha.d/ha.cf
>         # add an entry for C and D so 4 hosts are listed
>
> B: /etc/init.d/heartbeat start
>
> B: hb_takeover
>
> A: /etc/init.d/heartbeat stop; vi /etc/ha.d/ha.cf
>         # add an entry for C and D so 4 hosts are listed
>
> A: /etc/init.d/heartbeat start
>
> A: hostname C
>         # changes the first host's name, don't forget to update
>         /etc/hostname to C
>
> A: hb_takeover
>
> B: /etc/init.d/heartbeat stop; vi /etc/ha.d/ha.cf
>         # remove A and B leaving only C and D
>
> B: hostname D
>         # changes the second host's name, don't forget to update
>         /etc/hostname to D
>
> B: /etc/init,.d/heartbeat start
>
> B: hb_takeover
>
> A: /etc/init.d/heartbeat stop; vi /etc/ha.d/ha.cf
>         # remove A and B leaving only C and D
>
> A: /etc/init.d/heartbeat start
>
> A: hb_takeover
>         # Leave host A as the active load balancer, if you wish
>
>
>
> (BTW, really impressed with the speed of takeover, less than half a
> second I think, and no packets dropped with shared connection state via
> ipvs_syncbackup and ipvs_syncmaster running on both nodes! Excellent!).
>
>
> Regards,
>   James
>
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