[olug] Border management / server farms

[Terry]

Cisco Content Switch -
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/contnetw/ps792/index.html

Oracle and DB2 have clustering brains built in.


--- Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net> wrote:
> 
> Howdy --
> 
> Here's a pie in the sky question for you...
> 
> Anyone have any experience high availability
> web/database farms?
> 
> I want to have X web servers and Y databases. I need
> some magical 
> device that can know when server(s) in the farm(s)
> are offline, happily 
> continuing to route requests to the other server(s)
> that are online.
> 
> Preferrably I'd use some slice of Linux magic.
> Alternately, I could 
> spend $10K or whatever on some device from Cisco.
> This is all 
> hypothetical at this point, looking at options.
> 
> I'm just looking for ballpark info (product names)
> from anyone w/ any 
> experience.
> 
> (Yes, I know I could load multiple DNS entries, but
> I don't want to 
> have to wait for DNS timeout(s) if server(s) are
> offline.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> j
> 
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Terry

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