Subject: Re: [vserver] Poll: High (ish) availability - how are you doing it?
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 10:29:37 +0200

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 03:52:26PM -0400, Edward Capriolo wrote:

> A two node active/passive ext3 on top of DRBD managed by hearbeat (or
> whatever) is not a scaling solution, its just a high availability
> solution.

If you want to scale, run e.g. HAproxy before a cluster of HA
nodes.

It is obvious that a DRBD HA solution push availability
of nonredundant components into useful range. E.g. I run single-disk (non-RAID)
Atoms with nonredundant power supplies. However, they're cheap
enough (kit 300 EUR, add memory and disk) to run in tandems.

Especially if you run two vserver guest pools on each,
using active/active, so you don't lose half of the (meager) performance.

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