[ubuntu-uk] least connections ipvs lvs

[Pete Ryland]

On 27/03/07, xx xx <garciaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi mates does anyone try to loadbalance some stuff wit ipvs ? there is no to
> much info on the web but i know it support a bunch of algorythms for
> loadbalancing.
> I was using pools{} on openbsd but it does only support roundrobin.

The Linux Virtual Server website has some very good information on it:

http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/

The howto is here:

http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/

You could also use something like Ultramonkey:

http://www.ultramonkey.org/3/

I saw an amazing demo of Ultramonkey a few years ago at VA-J where
there was a server streaming video content to a laptop with buffering
turned off.  The server had the plug pulled and it seamlessly failed
over to its twin without even a glitch on the client side.

LVS is very mature now compared to its humble hearbeat/fake beginnings
almost ten years ago.

Pete