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Re: [lvs-users] lvs for failover using weight 0

To: gerd.pickel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] lvs for failover using weight 0
From: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:46:38 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, it-intuition wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we are currently using lvs for balancing two webservers by using the wrr
> scheduler in combination with persistance.
> Now we want to modify our setup to use one primary webserver and a
> secondary webserver as a backup server. My idea was to set the weight of
> the primary webserver to 1000 and for the backup server to 0.

you're doing failover rather than loadbalancing. You'd be 
better using failover software eg Linux-HA

Joe

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