[TriLUG] Re: LVS / Piranha

[Lance A. Brown]

I've just done something similar where I work using LVS as packaged by 
UltraMonkey, www.ultramonkey.org.  Once I figured out what they were 
doing and how they were doing it, it was quite easy to set things up.  
I'm very pleased with it.  The UltraMonkey packages provide LVS with 
both load balancing and high-availability capabilities for both the load 
directors and real servers.  Very nice.

--[Lance]

Ryan Wheaton wrote:

> Hey all.
>
> I'm about to start a project to configure my web environment using 4 
> servers.  One is planned to be the firewall / load balancer, two will 
> be apache frontends, and one will be the mySQL DB server.  I'd like to 
> configure the firewall box to be a load balancer for the web traffic, 
> but I can't quite decide how to go about it.  I've looked over some of 
> the stuff at linuxvirtualserver.org, but I was planning on using 
> RedHat, and it seems that RH does LVS different than the way that 
> lvs.org does it.  Should I be using Piranha for what I want it to do?  
> Or is LVS the 'real' way to go?  Or maybe I should just do DNS round 
> robin and do my 'load balancing' that way?  Any pointers / links / 
> howtos are much appreciated.
>
> -ryan
>

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