HA cluster

[Jordi Prats]

So there's no HA cluster for FreeBSD? RH cluster suite use kernel 
modules, so I cannot just recompile it, on the other hand clusterit does 
not fit all my requirements.

regards,
Jordi

Jules Gilbert wrote:
> Be careful.
>
> I use FreeBSD and I love it, I've used it for years and am not going 
> back to Linux.  BUT!, your entry expectations wrt progress, the level 
> of support, and many other things differ from the Linux world.
>
> I have 15 blades up 24X7, and one controller machine, and another 10 
> or so satellites, all running FreeBSD 6.1 or 6.2.
>
> And we have had our share of problems.  For example, some key aspects 
> of clusterit have never worked for us.  So we moved on and have made 
> to with one or two (now,) excellent home-brew solutions.  But running 
> FreeBSD is not going to be like running Linux.  On the other hand, 
> you'll get a lot of work done that with Linux, you'd never be able to 
> do, because Linux has it's own kind of troubles.
>
> I use these machines for research and some production applications and 
> don't need GUI's or lot's of access to the internet.  A few minutes a 
> day is all.  So we don't see attacks and such.
>
> --jg
>
>
>
> On Oct 30, 2007, at 7:27 PM, Jordi Prats wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> This is my first post on this list. I'm currently studding to change 
>> a HA Linux cluster to a HA FreeBSD cluster.
>>
>> Currently I have two (redundant) load balancers with LVS, and several 
>> NFS, MySQL and PostgreSQL servers using RedHat cluster suite.
>>
>> What would you recommend to change this Linux setup to a FreeBSD 
>> setup? Any experiences with HA clusters with FreeBSD?
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Jordi
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