On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Nick Stephens wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am quite new to LVS, and learned about it initially as a
> part of Redhat Enterprise Servers. Because of that I
> initially thought that redhat was the primary resource for
> clustering and load balancing,
We do the same on our site :-)
> The one thing that I do not see on the website, presumably
> because it is opinion based, is a comparison of the
> various resources available to achieve HA load balancing.
There hasn't been a technical shootoff to decide, so it
remains a matter of opinion. Both ldirectord and keepalived
work and are used by people on the mailing list.
> Pretty straightforward for this setup, right?
yes
> So if you had to set this up and sell it as a reliable HA
> system to your boss(es), which software package would you
> use for this? Piranha, Ultramonkey, Keepalived?
my opinions on Piranha are in
http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.unsupported.html#pbs_nutshell
Joe
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