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

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

Hi,

Load-balancing is not one of the features I REALLY need... should do without
it, at least for the moment ; i´m not looking for high-performance clusters
either (if I would, Beowolf would certainly be one of the more interesting
solutions).
I guess I´ve chased down nearly _every_ useful link on the net... (at least I
spend 8 hours in from of my browser, reading... ;-)))
SuSe & RedHat are both working on quite interesting projects but I need this
stuff _NOW_ , not in half a year... :-((

I´ll give TurboCluster 4.0 a try, I´ve just got hold of an evaluation CD ... I
start testing tomorrow and be back with some more news soon

Bye,
         Tobias

> 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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