Hello friends, Thank you for submitting the request regarding a practice with clustering models. I am also intrested in doing some practices with failover and load balancing especially mail and web servers. If you have any idea to implement such a these solutions without expensive hardware(especially central storage) Please write for mailing list.Normally I consider that I and other interested guys are able to dedicate 2-3 fedora servers with normal hardware. I even invite these friends to talk more regarding our experiences. Your cooperation is highly appreciated. Sincerely, --- James Montz <James.Montz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you just want to play and learn with Failover, > you don't have to have > a multi-host aware storage solution. > > I have a couple of test servers setup, just using > their local disk for > storage. I have setup several services (httpd, > sendmail, imap, and > virtual IP) to fail over between the two servers, > and has suited my > needs. And if you really wanted to test an external > storage source, you > could use an NFS mount. > > The only difference in a production environment will > be the presence of > the storage system, and this is basically just > handled by defining the > shared file system as a shared resource. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Thomas Cameron > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:34 AM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Cheap way to practice clustering? > > Hi all - > > I posted about using firewire for clustering > practice a couple of days > ago. It turns out that this apparently requires a > special, very > expensive firewire solution. > > So I want to play around with clustering (as in high > availability > clustering a la Red Hat Cluster Suite, not > computational clustering) at > home so that I can become more proficient. The > problem is, I don't want > to buy a multi-thousand dollar SAN for my house. I > wanted to find a way > to do clustering on the cheap. I am not sure what > path to take, so I am > going to toss it to the list to see if anyone has > any suggestions. I am > totally open to older/used equipment. > > >From what I've been told, I need a storage device > which is multi-host > aware, so plain old firewire or even SCSI JBOD won't > do. I've been > looking at the specs at > http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/cluster/hardware/. > > I'm leaning towards VMWare at this point, but I'd > rather do it for real > than in virtual machines. > > Any pointers? > > Thanks! > Thomas > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
