Estimate of installation time

[Imran Aziz]

Thank you Matthew that was exactly the answer I was looking for. I am not
going to be over ambitious from the start, and will try to get the basic
setup running , the load balanced servers are running Coldfusion, so
basically it will be only web traffic to be load balanced. The Coldfusion
servers at the backend use SQL Servers installed on two separate machines,
These boxes are dedicated Windows 2003 servers only running SQL Server 2005,
which I plan to load balance using Windows Clustering.

Thanks a lot,

Imran.


On 5/4/06, Matthew Story <matthewstory at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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> matt
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