Mac Mini Loadbalacing/cluster

[Kaptenrodskagg]

Hi everyone

(if this is in wrong category pls move it)

I'm about to start a new project

but i dont know if its possible the way i think.
i have attached a image to this thread to describe how i would like to do it.

Im about to get 4 MacMini's and would like those to bee loadbalancing for OD, file, and so on to a little branch office.
on those 4 MM's i would like to have like 8 virtual mac osx server running with diffrent roles.

the loadbalancing part comes then (not that i hope so) a MM breaks and then the other 3MM take over the load from the virtual servers. until the forth is replaced.

i hope you get my idea....


-rules

 

[ghellquist]

Hmm. Not an expert, but in my book this is not called load balancing, rather it is known as migration or fail-over. It is a function available in the virtual machine operating system. One example of where to read about this is here:

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/i...UID-3EE13ED8-172F-4560-B806-1E342AD7C486.html

Typically I would expect the cluster of servers to share common disk storage in a SAN or similar. If one server stops, then all data is accessible from the other servers.

I am not sure this would be either easy or inexpensive to do on a farm of mac servers.

Gunnar

PS: in my book, load balancing is typically when several servers run the same applications, ie several servers runnig web servers to same site. An external "load-balancer" then sends the request to the at the moment least loaded webserver, in effect balancing the load between the different servers.

 

[mus0r]

Hi everyone

(if this is in wrong category pls move it)

I'm about to start a new project

but i dont know if its possible the way i think.
i have attached a image to this thread to describe how i would like to do it.

Im about to get 4 MacMini's and would like those to bee loadbalancing for OD, file, and so on to a little branch office.
on those 4 MM's i would like to have like 8 virtual mac osx server running with diffrent roles.

the loadbalancing part comes then (not that i hope so) a MM breaks and then the other 3MM take over the load from the virtual servers. until the forth is replaced.

i hope you get my idea....


-rules

If you're using Open Directory you will simply make one master and the rest replicas.

 

[alexrmc92]

Hi everyone

(if this is in wrong category pls move it)

I'm about to start a new project

but i dont know if its possible the way i think.
i have attached a image to this thread to describe how i would like to do it.

Im about to get 4 MacMini's and would like those to bee loadbalancing for OD, file, and so on to a little branch office.
on those 4 MM's i would like to have like 8 virtual mac osx server running with diffrent roles.

the loadbalancing part comes then (not that i hope so) a MM breaks and then the other 3MM take over the load from the virtual servers. until the forth is replaced.

i hope you get my idea....


-rules

Load balancing is impossible on OS X server for pretty much everything. OD can do failover by creating replica servers, which is fairly easy to do.

However it can be done in linux

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HighlyAvailableNFS