clustering solution
I want to setup a clustering solution for a unix system , the hardware we have are two unix servers ( eg. server A and server B ) and one SAN storage server , they are physically connected properly now , but I am wonder how to setup the IP address -- > if server A is down , how user can connect server B , how the DNS server know when server A is down then forward user to connect server B ? I know something called "round robin" but I am too understand is it related to our situation , can advise what can I do ? thx in advance
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well that area is huge, and could go in a myriad of directions. assuming you are talking about linux, check the LVS project out, may well be all you need. http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/
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You can also try DRBD & Heartbeat
http://www.drbd.org/ http://www.linux-ha.org/Heartbeat http://www.howtoforge.com/high_avail...drbd_heartbeat |
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For simplply , we use windows DNS server , can I do something in DNS server instead of use other third parties program like headbeat ? thx |
DNS can do a round robin by specifying two A records for one FQDN, but that's an extremely crude way to do load balancing. if one of two machines goes down, then half the users will fail to function. pretty useless in my opinion. obviously the right solution depends on your circumstances, but you've decided no to tell us anything at all about the architecture you're working with and how you need things to function
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don't the routers that supply the backbone of the internet do this?
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do dns based round robin? hell no. why would a backbone router have anything to do with DNS at all?
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not like that no. they run routing protcols, mainly BGP in the net which sort this out.
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Ok. My mistake.
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do you mean the round robin is not a good solution ? my architecture is typical , the user connect the linux server by hostname ( we have windows DNS server ) , what I want is when server A is down , then it will redirect the user to server B , can advise what can I do ? thx |
round robin is effectively "dumb", 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2... no intelligence there at all.
as above, lvs. |
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