Re: Slightly off-topic: Any good/bad experiences with High-Availability Linux clusters ?

[Michael Erskine <osiris () vast urbanna net>]

Undoubtedly you have chased down the links at www.beosulf.org.  There are
some straight forward documents there that detail various setups.

I recommend something really simple...  sort of a mixed bag.
        Boot nodes from the local HDD.
        NFS out /home.
        Run Yellow Pages.
        Firewall the *hit out of the head.
        ... Take a hard look at SuSE they have it down to an art.
If your cluster is really a 'server farm' you can use IPCHAINS to
distribute the load across multiple nodes using the prioritization rules
described in the IPCHAINS howto.

It is a bit of work but in a week you should have it running.
;-)  Tell the boss two weeks as my estimates are ALWAYS LOW.


On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Tobias Gierke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Although the topic isn?t really related to firewalling, I still hope
> that someone out there can help me.
>
> I need to build a 2-3 node HA cluster for one of our customers.
> My boss would like to see these machines running on linux (cause it?s
> the cheapest solution...). I?ve browsed the web for approx. 9 hours but
> none of the solutions I found looked really stable/mature. My favorites
> up to now are Eddie and "heartbeat" (Linux-HA project).
>
> Any ideas ? I?d really appreciate  _ANY_ useful hints !!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>                                 Tobias Gierke
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