[Linux-cluster] Can i use 2 nodes from a cluster?

[C. Handel]

place a loadbalancer in front of the cluster. Buy hardware, for example F5
or coyote. Or go for software with haproxy and keepalived. The software
loadbalancer is a shared nothing. You only need to keep the config in sync
(for example using csync2). Configure load balancing with sticky sessions
based on incoming ips.

Create a redhat cluster with four nodes. Main service provided by rhcs is
GFS2. This allows you to share configfiles and web delivery files the same
on all nodes.

Start an apache on each node (via clones).

Traffic goes through loadbalancer and hits all rhcs nodes. Bandwith limit
is the interface of the loadbalancer. Processing limit is from each
RHCS-node. Disk I/O limit is from the SAN backing the GFS2 in combination
with the GFS2 (reading should be no issue, heavy writing will trash the
cluster via locks)

As an alternative use the suggested LVS. Only incoming requests need to
pass through the LVS, answers can pass directly to the client. Requires a
good knowledge on manipulating IP packets. Increases the output bandwith

Greetings
   Christoph

I am trying to build a redhat cluster with 4 nodes for High Availability
> and load balancing.
>
> example :
>
> node1,node2,node3,node4 for apache service + Centralized Storage.
>
> now when those 4 nodes are connecting into cluster, i can only use 1 node
> at a time and when 1 node goes down then it shift all services into node2 .
>
> but can i not use all 4 nodes a  time ??
>
> example, i have a hardware load balancer, From this  can i not pass the
> http trafiq to all 4 nodes ??
>
> if not then how can i have load balanced between these 4 nodes ??
>
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