Estimate of installation time

[Matthew Story]

This will also largely depend on how you're setting up LVS, are you
setting up keepalived or ultramonkey?  I'm assuming ultramonkey given
the set-up you described.  Do you want a basic set-up or an advanced
set-up (for example a set-up with high-throughput), also what services
are you runnning on the real servers (MySQL for example takes a lot
longer to configure in the ldirectord.cf file than apache does). 
Assuming that you're doing a basic set-up with ultramonkey and load
balencing only apache, with your experience I would say that total
time from start of install to running (install and debug) will
probably be around 1 -2 days (8 - 16 hours), but that's also not going
to yield a production quality server, that's just load-balenced
fail-over server up and running.  How long till production quality is
a question that I can't answer for you either.

On 5/4/06, Imran Aziz <jalal7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am new to load balancing and Linux Virtual Server, and my management has
> asked me for an estimate of installation time.
>
> considering the following setup , can you suggest an estimated installation
> time. Any suggestions would be great.
>
> 1) Basic understanding of Linux servers in general.
>
> 2) Have got a colleague working with me on this, who has 10 years linux
> experience , so I assume help will be available to me from a person with mid
> level linux expertise.
>
> 3) Two front end directors to be setup as a primary and backup load
> balancer.Two real servers to be load balanced. Real servers will have Centos
> 4.2 installed on them.
>
> 4) The Server OS will be installed by the hosting company, so that I can
> request them to install the right flavour of linux that supports LVS.
>
> Considering all the above how long do you think it should take to set this
> all up. Any resource that can help me make this estimate would be great.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Imran.
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regards,
matt