Load Balancing RH Ent ES

Hi,

I have two questions for the gurus out there.

I need to load balance a pair of RH Enterprise ES Servers for resilience.

Each Server has dual NIC's (Intel Gbit - not sure which). I would like to
set these NIC's up as a teamed pair - teamed for resilience.

Then I would like to Load balance for resilience these two servers.

Would someone like to suggest the best way of doing this please?

The server hardware is Fujitsu Siemens RX600 servers.

Thanks

Martyn

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In comp.os.linux.networking Martyn <(E-Mail Removed)> suggested:
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> Each Server has dual NIC's (Intel Gbit - not sure which). I would like to
> set these NIC's up as a teamed pair - teamed for resilience.

You can configure those in bonding mode, the RH network scripts
support that directly. AFAIR it's somehow documented in the RH
docs (networking part?). In addition check the file
"bonding.txt", comes with the kernel sources (somewhere in
../Documentation.

> Then I would like to Load balance for resilience these two servers.

AFAIR, LVS (Linuxvirtualserver) is built into ES/AS, there are
some (GUI) admin tools available, you can download from rhn, they
don't come on the installation media.

Good luck

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Michael Heiming wrote:

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> In comp.os.linux.networking Martyn <(E-Mail Removed)>
> suggested:
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>> Each Server has dual NIC's (Intel Gbit - not sure which). I would like to
>> set these NIC's up as a teamed pair - teamed for resilience.
>
> You can configure those in bonding mode, the RH network scripts
> support that directly. AFAIR it's somehow documented in the RH
> docs (networking part?). In addition check the file
> "bonding.txt", comes with the kernel sources (somewhere in
> ./Documentation.
>
>> Then I would like to Load balance for resilience these two servers.
>
> AFAIR, LVS (Linuxvirtualserver) is built into ES/AS, there are
> some (GUI) admin tools available, you can download from rhn, they
> don't come on the installation media.
>
> Good luck
>
> [..]
>

Thanks..

Martyn