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Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> realserver is an LVS term referring to the machine/node(s)
> that are being loadbalanced by the director.
>
> I've never liked the LVS nomenclature; e.g. "virtual",
> "realserver", but since I couldn't come up with an
> alternative and no-one else seemed to mind, I've just
> accepted it. We haven't had too much problems with the word
> "virtual" since we haven't run into other projects using the
> term much. However if realservers are going to be
> virtualised, there's going to be lots of name space
> collisions.
>
>
Joe,
I can see the term 'realserver' becoming a problem. A lot of people are
going to think this is real hardware when it's not limited to just real
hardware. I think a better term might be 'actual server' or 'runserver'
or 'destination server' or 'target server' or anything that doesn't use
real/virtual. The virtualization world is pretty much defining the
meaning of real/virtual. The LVS world needs to adopt some other
language to describe where the target service lives.
Gerry
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