On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Wayne Chan wrote:
Hi,
You've mention HA. Great! I am currently looking around for HA implementation, GPL softwares if possible. So far, LinuxVirtualServer.org looks promising AFAIK.
So when is SuSE coming out with their version of HA/load balanced? Any beta testing?
There are several solutions in one sentence here. Linux VirtualServer is already a good solution for webservers. The SGI HA stuff aims higher. We'll use it, for example, for Oracle servers, or fileservers, or... etc. You can already use the virt.serv. stuff. The SGI Failsafe solution (that's the name) needs more work. It's all user space, 650.000 lines of code plus Java GUI, and relatively easy to port and pretty clean, but HA is a complicated topic, so that will need a lot of testing before it can be used as 'production quality'. After all, this is supposed to be for big enterprise solutions, and not small department servers, and who wants to take blame when such a HA system fails because it wasn't fully tested? SGI Failsafe is a proven solution with a long history, but on Linux it is brand new. Beta-testing may be possible in a couple of weeks already. Look at www.linux-ha.org, the code is supposed to be integrated into the Linux HA project. All big Linux distributors are involved, we only started it. -- Michael Hasenstein http://www.suse.de/~mha/ Private Pilot (ASEL+aerobatics) since 1998 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/