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Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Piranha for LVS

食人鱼(Piranha)是南美洲食肉的淡水鱼。它们通常15—25厘米(6—10英寸)长,虽然有时发现有长度达到40厘米的。食人鱼具有尖利的牙齿(能够轻易咬断用钢造的鱼钩或是一个人的手指[1]),非常凶猛,一旦发现猎物,往往群起而攻之。可以10分鐘內將一隻活牛吃剩一排白骨。当地人用它们的牙齿来做工具和武器。亚马逊河、圭亚那河、巴拉圭河、等河流是食人鱼经常出没的场所。


piranha:
Summary     : Cluster administation tools
Description : Various tools to administer and configure the Linux Virtual Server as well as heartbeating and failover components.  The LVS is a dynamically adjusted kernel routing mechanism that provides load balancing primarily for web and ftp servers though other services are supported.

piranha的组件:

/usr/sbin/pulse
heartbeating daemon for monitoring the health of cluster nodes.

/usr/sbin/lvsd
daemon to control the Red Hat clustering services.

/usr/sbin/nanny
tool to monitor status of service in a cluster.

/usr/sbin/fos
failover services daemon to control the Red Hat clustering service.

/usr/sbin/send_arp
tool  to  notify network of a new IP address / MAC address mapping.
这个工具非常有用。

On LVS router, there are three service which need to be set to activate at boot time.

    piranha-gui
    pulse
    sshd

If you are clustering multi-port services or using firewall marks, you must enable the iptables service.