Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:25:43 +0000 From: Stephen Allen <p0036343@brookes.ac.uk> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How to provide fail-over capability for servers? Message-ID: <47264FD7.2040807@brookes.ac.uk>
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I'm completely new to this so some of my ideas may sound ludicrous... please put me right where necessary! I will have 3 net-facing servers which must be available 24/7. I had planned to have an additional box located in a different building on the same site (in case of part power-outage) that will run VMware server and host all the fail-over servers. What options are there for providing automatic fail-over capability? I had thought of running a cron job every minute that would test for the existence of the other server and assume its identity if it couldn't get a reply, but it feels like a 'sub-optimal' way of doing it. Can anyone give me some ideas I should be looking at? Many thanks, Steve :)
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