<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000066"> Appreciate the info, but indeed what we need is HA. <br> <br> I need to perhaps request if a cluster developer would be willing to add a new configuration item to the IP xtag within the cluster.conf configuration that would allow one to specify IP an IP label to apply the IP resource to.<br> <br> This <i>could</i> be done via a cluster resource script - but then we'd lose the ability to have the cluster software monitor the link and relocate the service should the link be lost.<br> <br> Kit Gerrits wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4c12f7e4.5120e30a.7714.7ed8@mx.google.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.5969" name="GENERATOR"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010">Hello,</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010"></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010">What you want sounds more like Load Balancing than HA Clustering.</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010"></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010">I would suggest building a lvs load balancing cluster with 10.1.1.x as front-end IP and 10.1.2 as backend IP.</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010">Make the LVS the default gateway for your 'cluster servers' (realservers), </span></font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010">then configure 1-.1.1.50 on your LVS cluster as Virtual IP with the 10.1.2.x realservers as backend using NAT routing.</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010"></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010">Documentation isa vailable at:</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/">http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/</a></span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010">or, more specifically:</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.LVS-NAT.html">http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.LVS-NAT.html</a></span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010"></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010">LVS should be included in Red Hat Advanced Platform.</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010"></span></font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010"></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010">Yes, running a LoadBalancing cluster means 2 more servers and 2 more subscriptions, but it will allow for highly-available Load Balancing.</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010">(implicitly allowing you to take realservers offline for maintenance)</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010"></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010"></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010">Regards,</span></font></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010"></span></font> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="565384702-12062010">Kit Gerrits</span></font></div> </blockquote> <br> <br> </body> </html>