From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 08:17:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414111065671 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:17:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael@powerzone.net.au) Received: from cinta.thebushtelegraph.com.au (christ58.lnk.telstra.net [165.228.0.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 460F28FC19 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:17:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael@powerzone.net.au) Received: (qmail 43027 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2008 17:50:45 +1000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.10.8?) (michael@christie.org.au@10.10.10.8) by cinta.thebushtelegraph.com.au with SMTP; 5 Aug 2008 17:50:45 +1000 Message-ID: <4898065A.5080008@powerzone.net.au> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:50:50 +1000 From: Michael Christie User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: High Availability FreeBSD www cluster X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:17:29 -0000 Hi all , I want to cluster some freeBSD servers, The purpose of this is to learn. I would like to run some basic services like www and mail on a test network. I would like to set up the servers so if one server falls over the other will take over the services automatically, load balanceing would be good as well. I have googled, I could be looking in the wrong place , there seems not to be much in regard to seting up freebsd in a cluster, lots on linux. I have looked at the High Availability Linux project , I see on the front page that it will run on freebsd. So I am a bit lost and i am wanting to learn how to cluster freebsd web and mail servers, I have looked at Beowulf clusters, which seem to give computers more grunt, Can some on on the list please advise me on what clustering softwhere i need to get started and if the High Availability Linux project softwhere will do the job. web links any thing to help me get started would be good. No I do not want to change over to linux. Thanks