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Graham David Purcocks M.A.(Oxon.) wrote:
> Ultramonkey is a pre-packaged complete implementation of LVS, heartbeat
> and ldirectord. Which gives you (in order) load balancing, director
> failover and real server monitoring.
>
> Piranha is RedHats offerering of the same.
>
> Keepalived is, I think, equivalent to ldirectord but I'm not sure as I
> don't use it.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 18:21, Dan Trainor wrote:
>
> Hello, all -
>
> Once again I call upon the help of you fine people in helping me better
> understand exactly what I'm looking at here. Before we get started, I'd
> first like to thank you all who have helped me in the past. You're an
> incredible help.
>
> I've been reading an excellent article by Mr. Zhang on linux-mag.com,
> http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-11/clusters_01.html. If you have not yet
> read it, I highly suggest that you do. It is very informative.
>
> While reading this article, UltraMonkey, Piranha, and Keepalived were
> briefly mentioned. Although there was a little intro given about all
> three, their purpose seemed a bit fuzzy to me.
>
> It seems to me that all three of these services provide the same type of
> service - they all determine which node is up/working/doing stuff, and
> deals with this circumstance as it sees appropriate. What I don't quite
> understand is the subtle differences between the three, or if I'm just
> completely wrong here. All three describe themselves as dealing with
> high availability and load balancing, but I can't really find a
> comparrison between the three.
>
> If anyone might be able to point me in the right direction, or just give
> me some links as to where I can read about the differences between the
> three, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks
> -dant
Thanks for the reply, Graham -
It doesn't look like there's been much development on Piranha in quite
some time here. Would it be safe to conclude that UltraMonkey may be my
best bet here, with consideration given to the fact that I'm quite new
at this as of yet?
Thanks
- -dant
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