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Re: [lvs-users] LVS software comparisons and opinions

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] LVS software comparisons and opinions
From: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:39:01 -0700 (PDT)
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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