[Ocfs2-users] Cluster setup

Randy Ramsdell rramsdell at livedatagroup.com
Tue Oct 9 12:02:39 PDT 2007


Brian Anderson wrote:
>  
> Not exactly. I'm in a similar boat right now. I have 3 NFS servers all
> mounting an OCFS2 volume. Each NFS server has its own IP, and the
> clients load balance manually... some mount fs1, others fs2, and the
> rest fs3. In an ideal world, I'd have the NFS cluster presenting a
> single IP, and failing over / load balancing some other way.
>
> I'm looking at NFS v4 as one potential avenue (no single IP, but it does
> let you fail over from 1 server to the next in line), and commercial
> products such as IBRIX. 
>
>
>   

Clustered in this sense could be handled with LVS/ldirector, or use RR 
using DNS, or  use LVS/HA. All these work but the filesystem has been 
clustered.

Thanks,
Randy Ramsdell



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