We just use Linux Virtual Server (piranha and ipvsadm) to load balance between two replicas, and use the supplier to handle the load balancing. If we need to take the supplier offline for any reason, the load balance duties are passed off to another system. Easy to setup and fully documented by Redhat and Centos, among other places. We did not go with DNS round-robin due to the fact that we couldn't easily take a system out of the LVS cluster for maintenance. LVS handles this for us. Didn't want to go with a hardware product due to the fact that we want more flexibility in the long term than a hardware solution can provide. That, and we didn't want to spend the money on it =) My $0.02 CDN Terry On 10-02-04 12:55 PM, Sean Carolan wrote: > For those of you with multiple servers that use replication, how do > you do your load balancing and failover? DNS round robin? Some kind > of hardware load balancer like a Netscaler or BigIP F5? > -- > 389 users mailing list > 389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users -- Terry Soucy, Systems Analyst Integrated Technology Services University of New Brunswick, Fredericton Campus http://www.unbf.ca/its Voice: 506.447.3018 Fax: 506.453.3590 E-mail: terry.soucy at unb.ca ** ITS is a scent-reduced workplace - www.unbf.ca/its/policies **
