RE: clustering (failover) with RHEL4 ?

["Shaw, Marco" <Marco Shaw aliant ca>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nahant-list-bounces redhat com 
> [mailto:nahant-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of FM
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 6:14 PM
> To: Mailing List RHEL 4
> Subject: clustering (failover) with RHEL4 ?
> 
> Hello,
> I have two servers with the same config (httpd load 
> balancer). I what an 
> active/active failover setup.
> 
> I read about the redhat GFS but I do not need it because I do 
> not need 
> to share file systems. linux-ha seems to bu a good solution.

A shared file system depends on your requirements and the software
used, most cluster software (as far as I know) requires a shared
"quorum"
disk at least.

> I'm suprised that RH do not have RPMS to create a failover server.
> 
> Is there a RH way to create a active/active failover ?

The "RedHat supported" way:
http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/cluster/

The cluster suite cost extra money.

> last question : where can I find lvsadmin for RH 4 ?

Lvsadmin seems to be part of the Linux Virtual Server project.  You
should
go to www.linuxvirtualserver.org and look around to downloads or the
mailing
lists and ask if anyone has a package for RH4.  Seems only the source
code/source RPMs are available on their site.

Marco
RHCE