[TriLUG] Re: LVS / Piranha

[Lance A. Brown]

Ultramonkey included everything I needed to get my webfarm operational, 
including the load director software for load balancing, heartbeat for 
high-availablity, etc.

Their docs could be much better, but once I got it running it was nice.

--[Lance]


Ryan Wheaton wrote:

> I can't really find much documentation on UltraMonkey, but from their 
> website, it kind of looks like UM is basically the heartbeat package 
> of a larger LVS implementation?
>
> has anyone used Piranha?  It seems very well documented and easy to 
> set up (from the RedHat site), but i could be sorely mistaken.
>
> -ryan
> On Tuesday, Oct 28, 2003, at 11:40 America/Denver, Jon Carnes wrote:
>
>> UltraMonkey gets my thumbs up too!
>>
>> Jon Carnes
>>
>> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 13:20, Lance A. Brown wrote:
>>
>>> 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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