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RE: Geographically separated load balancers?

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Geographically separated load balancers?
From: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:03:52 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Neil Aggarwal wrote:

Joe:

I am thinking there will be two physical machines.
Each machine will run a director and a real server.

Are there any docs on how to set up the VIP and
routing for this scenario?

I assume you have two machines, each being a director and realserver. It's Horms two machine setup but the machines are in different locations, on different networks.

It's a standard setup except that you're going to have to handle the routing yourself. If you can't move the VIP between locations (each location will have different network blocks), then you'll have to failover by changing the DNS entries (slow, can take days). So you'll need the two sites to cooperate (failover via the routing protocal which will take 30secs or so) and both sites will need to be able to take the VIP. Failover between different sites uses this (or similar mechanisms) and is a pretty normal operation.

It's all routing - nothing to do with the LVS layer.

Joe

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