Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 19:07:27 -0500 From: Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net> To: Benjamin Flom <benf@nexgen.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cluster Solution for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010406190727.A24393@tigerfish2.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <3ACE4173.6020708@nexgen.com>; from benf@nexgen.com on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 06:21:39PM -0400 References: <3ACE4173.6020708@nexgen.com>
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> We are looking to setup a failover option and a load balancing otion > using the servers that are in place. At this point we have loaded > identical configurations on 3 machines. If one of the machines gets > overloaded, we would like to off some of the processing or connection > handling to one of the others. If one of the machines goes down we would > like to have the broken box fail over, and have the other machines pick > up the load. Ideally, we could add machines to and remove machines from > the cluster as needed. The ability to maintain this configuration over a > WAN would be of value as well. Is there any known way to do this, any > direction we should follow, or is it just a pipe dream? > What you describe is what UnixWare 7.1.x with Compaq ClusterWare(?) does, running Compaq Proliant hardware. I don't know of freeware that comes close to doing what ClusterWare does, unfortunately. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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