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Re: [lvs-users] Can ldirectord handle that many servers?

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] Can ldirectord handle that many servers?
From: Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:00:16 +0200
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> if you've got 2200 ips internally and only 600 externally, I cannot  
> help but think to myself:
> "you're doing it wrong"

I'm doing what I am and was forced to do due to technical circumstances.

Now I'n verifying whether ldirectord et al. can handle this. That's all. ;)

Best,

Timo


> I think you've been convinced to do something fundamentally broken and  
> it needs to be
> fixed at the lower level before you proceed...  unless there's some  
> other piece of data here
> that I'm not aware of.
> 
> Geoff Harrison
> Chief Architect
> The Hive
> (617) 301-6200
> 
> 
> On Apr 20, 2009, at 4:57 AM, timo.schoeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> hi,
>>
>>> we have a similar setup, but we use multiple ipvs + ldirector setups
>>> for this, where the most bandwidth we push through any given pair is
>>> ~500 mbit or so of sustained traffic.
>> that sounds equal. nice.
>>
>>> the way I see it, if you've got 2200 machines, you can afford to have
>>> multiple gateways into your network...
>> we do have them; it's not 2,200 _physical_ machinesm, btw, it's  
>> 2,200 IPs.
>>
>>> that or you've done something completely wrong and have far too much
>>> hardware for far too little traffic / processing
>> not really; we're going to replace existing load balancers, hence  
>> the setup.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> timo
>>
>>> Geoff Harrison
>>> Chief Architect
>>> The Hive
>>> (617) 301-6200
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 17, 2009, at 4:41 AM, Timo Schoeler wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello list,
>>>>
>>>> it seems that the first issue I had with ldirectord [0] is mostly
>>>> solved; that given, I'm about to deploy another LVS box in a  
>>>> different
>>>> environment. I did read the 'what is the max throughput LVS can
>>>> handle,
>>>> and max number of concurrent connection?' thread, but that's LVS,  
>>>> not
>>>> ldirectord...
>>>>
>>>> That raises the question for me if anybody has a similar (or even
>>>> bigger) setup in production.
>>>>
>>>> To give a few numbers: Virtual IPs will be about 600, real servers  
>>>> are
>>>> almost 2200. Services should be tested every 2 or 5 seconds.
>>>>
>>>> Any takers?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Timo
>>>>
>>>> [0] -- http://tinyurl.com/cz76dl
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