Geographically separated load balancers?

[Neil Aggarwal]

Joe:

The servers will be in datacenters that I lease space from.
It looks like I will need cooperation from both of those
datacenters to make this work.  I am not sure they would
be willing to do that.

Is this something datacenters would normally work with
me on or is it beyond the norm?

Thanks,
	Neil


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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:lvs-users-bounces at LinuxVirtualServer.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Mack
NA3T
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 11:04 AM
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Subject: RE: Geographically separated load balancers?

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Neil Aggarwal wrote:

> Joe:
>
> I am thinking there will be two physical machines.
> Each machine will run a director and a real server.
>
> Are there any docs on how to set up the VIP and
> routing for this scenario?

I assume you have two machines, each being a director and 
realserver. It's Horms two machine setup but the machines 
are in different locations, on different networks.

It's a standard setup except that you're going to have to 
handle the routing yourself. If you can't move the VIP 
between locations (each location will have different network 
blocks), then you'll have to failover by changing the DNS 
entries (slow, can take days). So you'll need the two sites 
to cooperate (failover via the routing protocal which will 
take 30secs or so) and both sites will need to be able to 
take the VIP. Failover between different sites uses this (or 
similar mechanisms) and is a pretty normal operation.

It's all routing - nothing to do with the LVS layer.

Joe

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