Fedora 7 Launch

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Fri May 11 18:10:53 UTC 2007


Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> The RedHat Load balancing clustering tool (piranha) might looks a bit
> complex, but in reality, it's just a fancy wrapper around ipvsadm 
> which is
> the user-space tool for the kernel traffic director. I havent played with
> Nth module, but ipvsadm is probably more tested.
> So, we don't have a hardware balancer ? are we searching for a software
> balancing solution ?

I've used piranha in the past with great success but it requires 
additional boxes that we just don't have yet.  We have one hardware 
balancer we use for the proxy servers.  I'd like to stick one between 
the proxy servers and the application servers.

    -Mike




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