[TriLUG] Recommendations for Linux clustering products

[Roy Vestal]

Have you looked into a Rock cluster on CentOS? 
http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/  I've read about it but not 
tried it as yet. I've only done compute clusters in the past.

Here's an interesting little thread on Rock vs Conga vs HPC:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/rock-cluster-vs-conga-on-centos-811171/

One author states a simple common NFS mount across all systems, plus 
home dirs using LDAP authentication. Don't know if that'll work for you 
or not.

We're using Cisco CSS's  for load balancing and connecting into a 6500s 
for the actual traffic management and shared datastorage for the 
backend, similar to the way the article above.

On a more humorous note, here's a guy who used an IKEA Helmer file 
cabinet to make a rendering cluster.
http://helmer.sfe.se/

HTH,
-Roy

On 11/24/10 5:10 PM, Ron Kelley wrote:
> Greetings all,
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> I am looking for recommendations on building a small linux 2-node cluster that will provide HTTP, MySQL, and NFS services.  Once up and operational, this cluster is expected to be 100% hands-off (as in - deployed in the field at remote locations) so reliability is critical.  This node will consist of two independent systems connected via back-to-back GigE network interfaces for redundancy.
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> I have used clustering tools in the past (haproxy, ucarp, etc) and have dabbled around with Linux HA, but would like to get some suggestions on a turn-key clustering product.  I was also looking over at RedHat's site recently and read some information on their "Red Hat Cluster Suite" product and was trying to find out exactly how much $$$ it costs to deploy.
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> Other than Linux HA and Red Hat Cluster Suite, what other clustering products exist for the Linux world?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> -Ron
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