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

[Tobias Gierke <Tobias.Gierke () netsurf de>]

Oh, I´m sorry ... english is not my native language. (Anyway, even in german my
sentence could be interpreted that way...)

To put things straigt: I meant the solution which best fits my needs while being
the lowest priced one, not the one with just the lowest price...

Since I got an eval CD of TurboCluster, I´ll give it a try... wait for more news
to come...

Bye,
            Tobias

P.S. Mainly I´m looking for automatic failover of processes (but load-balancing
is nice as long as it doesn´t cause me trouble with the software I´m going to
run,
        GaussVIP - a web-based content-managment-system).

> Tobias,
>
> You wrote:
> > 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).
>
> Boy, does this scare me...  You're building a High Availability system for a
> customer, yet you want the cheapest solution...  If this "Cut-Rate High
> Availability Cluster" goes down, will it be that "cheap" anymore to the
> customer?  I sure hope this is for a test environment.  I digress...
>
> On to the question.  I have heard good things about "TurboLinux", but you
> might check out "Linux clustering cornucopia" at LinuxWorld.com
> (http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-03/lw-03-clustering.html).
> I'm right in the middle of reading through it so I can't judge if it will
> help or not.
>
> Do you have any more information on this mini-cluster?  Are you just looking
> for automatic failover of processes, or load balancing between some web
> servers?
>
> Good luck!
>
> Dan

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