Realservers on OpenVZ VMs in LVS-DR mode - is it possible?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, f.m.gomes at controlrede.com wrote:

> Hi, I'm new to the LVS, and didn't find information about the possibility of 
> running realservers on OpenVZ virtual machines with director in LVS-DR mode, 
> has someone tried this setup?

Not that we've heard. Horms and Ratz have their LVS's setup 
under VMWare on their laptops.

> I'll run LVS director on dedicated machines 
> (failover setup), but want to run the realservers on OpenVZ virtual machines 
> distributed by several real hardware servers, in order to have easy 
> maintenance, due to its ability to migrate virtual machines. My doubt is 
> because both LVS and OpenVZ patches

LVS is a module - you can unload it to test if it's 
interferring. It's likely that OpenVZ is independant of the 
LVS code.

> the kernel and LVS-DR seems to need 
> patching also on the real servers,

not any more. arp_ignore is in the kernel now.

I'd be interested to hear how you go

Joe
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