[UPHPU] Load Balancing - Software, Hardware

[William Attwood]

Darrin--
   Here are the systems I have (copy into Excel, there are tabs separating
each column):

System Drive Size "Drive Count" Raid Memory Processor
Dell PowerEdge 1950 73GB 15K RPM 2 1 4000 Intel Xeon 5130 Dual Core 2.0Ghz
Dell PowerEdge 2950 146GB 15K RPM 2 1 4000 Dual Intel Xeon 5130 Dual Core
2.0Ghz
Dell PowerEdge 2950 73GB 15K RPM, 146GB 15K RPM 2,3 1,5 4000 Dual Intel Xeon
5130 Dual Core 2.0Ghz
Dell PowerEdge 2950 146GB 15K RPM 2 1 4000 Dual Intel Xeon 5130 Dual Core
2.0Ghz
Dell PowerEdge 2950 73GB 15KRPM, 300GB 15KRPM 2,4 1,5 4000 Dual Intel Xeon
5130 Dual Core 2.0Ghz
Dell PowerEdge 2950 146GB 15K RPM 2 1 4000 Dual Intel Xeon 5130 Dual Core
2.0Ghz
Dell PowerEdge 2950 146GB 15K RPM 2 1 4000 Dual Intel Xeon 5130 Dual Core
2.0Ghz
Dell PowerEdge 2950 73GB 15KRPM 2,3 1,5 8000 Dual Intel Xeon Quad Core
3.0Ghz

We're looking at using two 1950's as the Load Balancers, the 2950 Quad Core
as DB1, a 2950 as DB2, 2 of the 2950's as Web Servers, one as a Staging Env,
etc..

Do you feel this is adequate? ;-)

What solution did you implement; software load balancing?  If so, do you
feel it would run well on the above machines?

Thanks,
-William




On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Darrin Keller <darrinkeller at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Hi Will, we set up a pretty robust system. It worked really well when we
> launched Digg's online store two months ago. Check it out at
> http://shop.digg.com. We had a TON of traffic and we could have handled
> twice as much as we received. We set up 3 web servers controlled by a
> director and two database servers. Let me know if you want the details.
>
> Darrin Keller
> darrin.keller at winmanagement.com
>
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:33:59 -0700
> > From: wattwood at gmail.com
> > To: uphpu at uphpu.org
> > Subject: [UPHPU] Load Balancing - Software, Hardware
>
> >
> > Hello--
> > I'm diving into Load Balancing and am weighing Software vs. Hardware
> > solutions. Has anyone dealt heavily in Load Balancing, if so, what do you
> > use? We're just needing it for 3 web servers, currently.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Will
> >
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