Re: [gentoo-cluster] High-Availability Howto for Gentoo

[Ramon van Alteren]

Hi List,

We're running a 40 node webserver HA-cluster, with two loadbalancers  
and a 30 node mysql replication setup as datastore behind that which  
we are going to move behind a loadbalancer set soon. We're currently  
building the load-balancers for that.

All the loadbalancers are using a direct routing setup.

Apart from that we also employ a number of storage NFS servers and  
infrastructure related servers such as build-hosts and rsync server etc.

On 7 Apr , 2006, at 10:31 PM, Jan Klopper wrote:
> If we're going to setup a nice wiki tut, il put up my configs
> aswell. ironically i used a win2k + LVS tutorial to get my system
> to work as it should.

As soon as stuff cools down a bit here, I'll add configs and docs as  
well to the wiki. Currently it's too busy. I checked the wiki the  
other day but didn't see a page ?

> The whole concept of all those LVS monkey releases is something i
> didn't really grasp at first, since gentoo doesn't install the
> packages like that, but just keeps them all up to dat trough
> portage, which is very different to what the LVS docs are talking
> about.

Right now we're not usiing any of the ultramonkey stuff but a custom  
setup with LVS and heart-beat. The new set of load-balancers is setup  
to use keepalived.

> How many people would be interested in helping out with this. If
> you've read this far it must be because it's a Friday afternoon so
> anything can distract you!

I / we'd be interested. I expect that things cool down a bit  
somewhere at the beginning of may.

If anyone is interested in helping us out, we're hiring :-) You need  
to be located in near to Amsterdam/Holland, but if you are contact me  
off-list.

Grtz Ramon
--
In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.'
And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.