Good day all, not sure if this is the correct place to post this but nothing specifically related to my question in the lists.

We need to setup a load balancer (software) for an apache web service in order to balance the load between two servers.

In explenation:

- two physical servers exist that runs a web based application (exact copy of each other)
- Real servers using Apache as the web server.
- Users need to connect to a "virtual link" whihc will then load balance across the two servers based on the host that is the least busy.


Currently using Ultramonkey, however after upgrading to RHEL5.4 , Ultramonkey is no longer supported and installations fail.



Can anyone perhaps provide me with some ideas on alternative options for this keeping in mind that the client will have to be able to manage this afterwards as well.

any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

You can try something like Crossroads (XR) .. it has some nice features. There are several other SLB projects out there but some are dead, etc .. or you can go the LVS way but the learning curve may be a little high for the customer

Ref: http://crossroads.e-tunity.com/
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/

cheers

Hi kbp


Thank you very much for the tip on crossroads. Tested this now and it works perfectly for what it is going to be used.

We will be testing it on the new environment soon to make sure it works properly, etc... but from initial tests this is exactly what we needed.

Regards