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Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 12:53 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
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>> After looking at my LVS load balancing options 1-LAN or 2-LAN, in
>> conjunction with my other needs such as ease of access to services such
>> as shared storage, I'm going to set things up as 1-LAN. Now is 1-LAN
>> just as reliable as 2-LAN? Also, I'm going to put the load balancers
>> for now in QEMU virtual machines and use VDE2 virtual switch to connect
>> to the Host LAN. Has anyone done this using QEMU and VDE2 yet?
>>
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> I have! I have!
>
Yes! I knew somebody must have tried this.
> But it was two, or possibly three, years ago. And it wasn't VDE2, nor a
> decent version of QEMU either (it fell over a lot). But it sufficed as a
> proof of concept for an SSL proxy system I designed for someone (to
> offload the SSL overhead from a web farm to a pair of load-balanced
> Squids).
>
> As I recall, once I had the various virtual nets setup, and managed to
> get a reasonable system image to run under QEMU, the rest was just the
> same as making it work with a bunch of real machines. A bit slower, but
> just the same :)
>
> Concentrate on getting your host and guest machines running -
> standalone, if need be - then linking them up via your VDE network.
>
> Then - and only then - start tinkering with LVS. I still have the scabs
> on my knees from the experience (running before walking) :)
>
Certainly have plenty of those myself. I'm taking it in small steps so
we'll see how it goes. Really like the VDE2 virtual switch idea. Even
has virtual cables.
> Graeme
>
>
Gerry
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