Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 19, 2007 02:06 PM
We just set up a pilot LVS cluster, using the new CentOS 5, for load-balancing Web servers. LVS does indeed work well, and the RHEL/CentOS implementation is easier than some others to configure (the much-more-expensive F5 BigIP box looks, behaves, and performs remarkably similarly). We were able to push 450Mbits/sec of traffic through a Pentium 4, 2.8GHz box w/ 512MB DRAM and two Gig-E interfaces before we maxed out the CPU. We used round-robin scheduling, with no persistence, in a "NAT routing" configuration.
But not everyone needs to set up LVS. The solution discussed here, "balance", seems like it would work just fine for, say, a school with a 10Mbps link to the Internet. It might even be fine for a full DS-3 (T3) line, and it appears easier to set up than LVS, which is a good selling point.
That's the beauty of the Free Software world. There's more than one solution to a given problem, depending on the needs of the one who needs to solve said problem.
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Just set up an LVS cluster with CentOS 5
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 19, 2007 02:06 PMBut not everyone needs to set up LVS. The solution discussed here, "balance", seems like it would work just fine for, say, a school with a 10Mbps link to the Internet. It might even be fine for a full DS-3 (T3) line, and it appears easier to set up than LVS, which is a good selling point.
That's the beauty of the Free Software world. There's more than one solution to a given problem, depending on the needs of the one who needs to solve said problem.
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