Re: [exim] heartbeat load balancing and exim

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Autor: Adrián Chapela
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CC: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [exim] heartbeat load balancing and exim
Jeroen van Aart escribió:
> W B Hacker wrote:
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>> - Let ordinary DNS entries split the day-to-day load over twin machines
>> by domain.tld
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> That's already happening and it works fine.
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>> - sync their mailstore (by any of several methods - from unseen routers
>> through GMIRROR, nfs, or shared SAN)
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I use now to do that, DRBD. In the past I test OCFS2 and GFS could be a
better solution.
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>> - have each box watch the other (checkservice, monit - whatever).
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>> - IF/AS/WHEN a box sees its twin go offline, it picks up the IP of the
>> failed box as an alias.
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> That sounds like a good idea.
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Yes it is a good idea. I use heartbeat now to do the ip switching. In
the past I am using LVS (Keepalived) to achieve high availability and
load balancing.
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>> Restoral best done manually - but you were going to trouble-shoot and do
>> maintenance anyway, no?
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> Obviously :-)
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> Greetings,
> Jeroen
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