Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 17:24:26 -0500 From: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" <car@vitalit.com> To: <freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: clustering freebsd Message-ID: <007601c2883e$c6d8ebd0$0501000a@LAPTOP> References: <200211092113.gA9LDFG28495@splat.grant.org>
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Michael,
I would suggest looking at all the currect load balancing, fail-over, and
high availability (in order of complexity) articles that are available on
the internet explaining how they built their cluster and the basics of
clusters. Find solutions that could work for you and implement them with
your FreeBSD platform. There really isn't a "here's a FreeBSD fail-over
cluster solution", because it is usually a custom environment like the setup
below though you might find some tools that have been ported to FreeBSD to
help you get to where you want to be.
One of the biggest issues to overcome is data integrity and consistency.
You can't have two machines trying to update the same data at once.
You can set this up now with shared SCSI, but I am planning on setting up
something like this when a decent synchronous network file system is
available:
Two machines, each running seperately with its own active users and
applications, each having local access to a mirror of the other machines
data. When online machine notices offline machine has been down for n
minute(s) it will mount the local mirror, bring up virtual interfaces, and
start all processes with their configurations. The offline machine would
ideally also have "shutdown" procedures in the event that the outage was
network related. A recover procedure would involve updating then mounting
the local mirror on the offline machine, killing the processes on the online
machine, removing/creating virtual interfaces, and starting the processes on
the recovered machine.
Chuck
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