Hi Mike(?), I'm sure, we could help you getting your system up and running. How much do you want to afford for your installation/support flat rate ? BTW: here's a link to our reference story for web service clustering: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/021jul06/features/gfs_update/ go to section "Reference: Munich International Trade Fairs". Thanks, Mark On Sunday 03 December 2006 23:01, isplist@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Sorry if this is a double post, just can't tell if it made it out. > > --- > > I don't know if this is allowed but I do hope you'll allow me to post this > or suggest where I could get some good help. > > I BADLY need to get my project working. If it works out and affordable, I'd > like to be able to ask for more help when needed, ongoing. I am not a > corporation and don't have deep pockets so if you only know how to bid for > those types, I'll be out of your league. I need a flat rate price so that I > can budget for it. > While I love learning and doing all these things, I just can't do it all in > a time efficient manner... I need help!!! > > Would someone be interested in making a few bucks to get the final bits of > my project working right. Mostly, it involved getting my load balancing > (LVS) going and GFS straightened out. > > Here's the setup; > > All servers have a dual NIC (LB's and servers) which should help to make > things simple. > > WEB; > 3 web servers which need a load balanced front end for users to get in, > including making sure that sessions aren't lost, etc. Nothing too special > that I can think of here other than session loss. The application is mostly > joomla/mambo based for web services. > All servers share GFS mounted storage. On GFS, just need to make sure > entire cluster does not blow up every time something goes wrong. Using > Brocade switches for fencing. Everything works, just needs fine tuning to > better handle fencing and dead node problems taking the whole thing down. > > MAIL; > 4 Qmail (Qmail-Toaster) servers which require a load balanced front end. I > need users to be able to reach the usual compliment of ports for various > services, webmail, pop, imap, smtp, etc. > Need to know what is the best way of load balancing mail services. One > server handles all outgoing, one all incoming, not sure. All servers share > GFS storage. Same as above, it's all set up, it all works but since the > learning curve and time spent on this has been so high, I just cannot > afford to keep trying to figure out the last little bits. I need help to > get this done once and for all. > > MySQL; > 4 MySQL servers installed, ready to work together. Again, all share GFS > storage, need to get fencing working so there aren't any blow ups. Need to > have load balanced MySQL working in the simplest manner possible so that I > can maintain them later. Getting into complicated MySQL setup's won't work > for me. I've read that some folks have been able to use GFS to share common > storage. Since I'm so far behind on all the other parts, I've not even > started on this yet. One of the servers currently does it all so load > balancing these had not even begun. GFS is in place and ready to go here > also. > > Load Balancing (LVS); > I'm using LVS with Piranha. It seems simple but I keep missing something > and getting help over email has just led to frustration for those nice > enough to help me. I cannot afford to be told how to do it, I need someone > to just do it and I'll learn by seeing it done. > > I have LVS servers ready to configure for Web and Qmail services. I'll > build another for the private/internal MySQL section. Once everything is in > place, I will later build the matching redundant server for each section, > Web/Qmail and MySQL. > I prefer to keep the Web, Mail and MySQL LVS front ends as separate servers > for future flexibility and performance rather than handling all services on > one pair. > > Everything is in place... just need the configuring and fine tuning done so > that I can finally feel secure enough to fire up the services for public > access. Right now, not only is LVS missing but it's too easy to lose the > GFS storage when something screws up. > > Please, contact me if you can help me. Thank you. > > > > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Gruss / Regards, Dipl.-Ing. Mark Hlawatschek Phone: +49-89 452 3538 15 http://www.atix.de/ http://www.open-sharedroot.org/ ** ATIX - Ges. fuer Informationstechnologie und Consulting mbH Einsteinstr. 10 - 85716 Unterschleissheim - Germany -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
