[SOLVED] Is Red Hat Cluster suitable for balancing the node of multiple application servers?

XXLRay · 05-26-2010, 08:50 AM

I work for a university institute and we have some different application servers that are used to execute applications via SSH terminals. Some are Xen-VMs and some are hardware hosts. All run RHEL 5. They all have access to a shared NFS tools partition on a separate fileserver which provides the same applications to them.

Our problem is that the load on the application servers is unevenly as our users prefer to log in to very few known hosts.

We now want to balance the tasks executed on the hosts. Is "Red Hat Cluster" a suitable application for this purpose? I only could find the options "No-single-point-of-failure hardware configuration", "Data integrity assurance" and "Ethernet channel bonding" but none of them seems to fit my demands.

If Red Hat Cluster is not the right application for me can anyone suggest another solution?

anomie · 05-26-2010, 04:25 PM

RH Cluster Suite's product page claims to offer load balancing:
http://www.redhat.com/cluster_suite/

Quote:

... Red Hat Cluster Suite provides two distinct types of clustering:
* Application/Service Failover - Create n-node server clusters for failover of key applications and services
* IP Load Balancing - Load balance incoming IP network requests across a farm of servers

I've worked with their HA offering, but not load balancing (so can't speak to it).

XXLRay · 06-03-2010, 06:56 AM

It seems as if Red Hat Cluster Suite Requires a shared SCSI storage. Thus it is not suitable for me. I think about using http://www.ultramonkey.org/