Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:42:39 -0800 From: Justin Hopper <jhopper@bsdhosting.net> To: Matt Olander <matt@offmyserver.com> Cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clustering options Message-ID: <1101170559.3370.223.camel@work.gusalmighty.com> In-Reply-To: <20041122160912.L31380@knight.ixsystems.net> References: <1101168686.3370.210.camel@work.gusalmighty.com> <20041122160912.L31380@knight.ixsystems.net>
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On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 16:09, Matt Olander wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 04:11:26PM -0800, Justin Hopper wrote: > > I was waiting for some activity on this list so that I wouldn't just > > join and blurt out a question, but so far I haven't seen any messages on > > this list. > > yeah, it's pretty quiet on here ;) > > > My question is pretty general: what hardware clustering options are > > there for FreeBSD? I was looking at the Appro Clustering product that > > they have, but they list only Linux and Windoze as supported OSes. I > > scoured their site looking for documentation on exactly how their > > clustering appliance works, like how it actually presents itself to the > > OS as a unified piece of hardware, but I could find no documentation at > > this level. The idea of using a blade-style system seems appealing, if > > it worked in FreeBSD, which is the only operating system that we use for > > production servers. > > hmmm...my company resells Intel's blade solution, which is the one that > was co-developed with IBM. but it's not really a 'hardware clustering' > option. what are you trying to get it to do? are you looking for > computational clustering, or high availability? My term of "hardware clustering" might have been incorrect. I'm looking more for high availability, but a large pool of resources would be beneficial as well. It would be ideal to have a system where you can add new blades as more resources become necessary, instead of adding individual servers which each run their own OS and have their own pool of resources. -- Justin Hopper <jhopper@bsdhosting.net> UNIX Systems Engineer BSDHosting.net Hosting Division of Digital Oasys Inc. http://www.bsdhosting.net
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