The Linux Enterprise Cluster: Build a Highly Available Cluster with Commodity Hardware and Free Software - Brossura

Kopper, Karl

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1593270364 ISBN 13: 9781593270360

Casa editrice: No Starch Pr, 2005

Riassunto

The Linux Enterprise Cluster explains how to take a number of inexpensive computers with limited resources, place them on a normal computer network, and install free software so that the computers act together like one powerful server. This makes it possible to build a very inexpensive and reliable business system for a small business or a large corporation. The book includes information on how to build a high-availability server pair using the Heartbeat package, how to use the Linux Virtual Server load balancing software, how to configure a reliable printing system in a Linux cluster environment, and how to build a job scheduling system in Linux with no single point of failure.

The book also includes information on high availability techniques that can be used with or without a cluster, making it helpful for System Administrators even if they are not building a cluster. Anyone interested in deploying Linux in an environment where low cost computer reliability is important will find this book useful.

The CD-ROM includes all of the software needed to build a Linux Enterprise Cluster, including the Linux kernel, rsync, the SystemImager package, the Heartbeat package, the Linux Virtual Server package, the Mon monitoring package, and the Ganglia package. All figures in the book are also included on the CD-ROM.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Karl Kopper has worked with distributed computing environments on many platforms, including Linux, Windows, Macintosh, a wide variety of UNIX platforms, and Tandem mainframes. As a consultant for a private wholesale food distribution company, he worked on the conversion to a new business system the Linux Enterprise Cluster described in the book that has worked flawlessly to date. When he's not building Linux clusters and studying free software projects he enjoys spending time in the garden, growing food with friends and family.

Contenuti:

INTRODUCTION TO THE LINUX SERVER:
- Starting the Services
- Handling the Packets
- Compiling the Kernel

HIGH AVAILABILITY LINUX:
- Synchronizing Servers with Rsync and SSH
- Cloning Systems with SystemImager
- Heartbeat Introduction and Theory
- A Sample Heartbeat Configuration
- Heartbeat Resources and Maintenance
- Stonith and Ipfail

CLUSTER THEORY AND PRACTICE:
- The Ideal Cluster
- The Linux Virtual Server Introduction and Theory
- The Linux Virtual Server Network Address Translation Cluster
- The Linux Virtual Server Direct Routing Cluster
- LVS and Netfilter
- The High Availability Cluster
- The Cluster File System

MAINTENANCE AND MONITORING:
- Simple Network Management Protocol and Mon
- Batch Job Scheduling with Ganglia
- Cluster Maintenance and Operation

Architecture of the Linux Enterprise
A Pictography
Glossary
Appendices

Su questa edizione

• Editore: No Starch Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1593270364
• ISBN 13: 9781593270360
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 430