Clustering in Arch

rsantiba · 2010-07-01 20:49:22

Hi Archers:

I've used this distro since 3 years in workstations and my netbook Toshiba NB200 and everything works fine. Now the challenge is to build a cluster with 3 server machines. Everyone is a DELL PowerEdge

The Master: PowerEdge R710
The Node: PowerEdge 2950
The Node: PowerEdge R710

A litle photo reference

Any Suggestion before apply axe?

Last edited by rsantiba (2010-07-05 13:46:54)

sand_man · 2010-07-05 02:34:33

Well there is no wiki page on building a cluster so my suggestion is to document everything and contribute it to the community.
As far as actually building the cluster, I got no friggen idea
I wish I had some hardware like that to play with.

rsantiba · 2010-07-05 13:49:47

Thanks sand_man for the reply. Yeap, i'll document the building of this cluster (it's a part of my job ;-) so stay intouch
Regards

amethyr · 2010-07-27 04:04:22

Ive been looking at MOSIX vs. Beowulf and I've take a liking to MOSIX for various reasons.
I'm trying to use two Supermicro servers and a custom built tower as a cluster using arch.
From everything I've read, Beowulf clustering is done at a software process level while MOSIX is done at the kernel level.
MOSIX.org contains what appears to be a kernel addon that works with various Linux distributions.
While they recommend using openSUSE they have a general one that should work for Arch.
I'm hoping to get ArchServer to work with this project. (There is practically no help on their site though and I like the people here)
Anywho let me know what you come up with. Ill keep a record too so later i can retry this and see if I can improve upon it.

sand_man · 2010-07-27 06:58:51

I'll admit that I don't know much about clusters but having a different spec node to the other node, will that cause a bottleneck and degradation in performance? Will it only be as fast as the slowest node?

scarletxfi · 2010-07-27 08:16:28

Sounds awesome! i'd like to read it ...

I did some searching and I found this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Distcc , it may help you..

Also, gentoo has a great wiki on high performance clustering : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/hpc-howto.xml

good luck!

Ashren · 2010-07-27 08:31:06

rsantiba: You could also consider using ocfs, which is available from Extra. It should be pretty straightforward to set up or so I hear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCFS

Darksoul71 · 2010-07-28 08:57:38

@rsantiba:
It´s actually hard to give suggestions unless you tell us for what purpose you want to use the cluster.
There are a lot of ways to "cluster".

- Use multiple Java application servers as cluster (e.g. JBoss).
- Build a redundant SAN (two nodes with a cluster file system) plus a load balancer
- Use multiple nodes as virtualisation servers as a logical unit (= cluster) similar to VMWare (e.g. proxmox ve)
- Running multiple DB servers as cluster (Oracle RAC / two DB servers with heartbeat and cluster filesystem)
etc.

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amethyr · 2010-07-29 14:17:46

For myself I would like to run visualization servers.

Darksoul71 · 2010-07-29 14:23:57

Both KVM and Xen are very powerful solutions if your CPU supports Pacifica / VT.
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My rule of thumb: Every demanding VM should have a dedicated core.

For administration of a big cluster karensansui looks promising:
http://karesansui-project.info/

At work we are using a Debian based solution called Proxmox with good experiences:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page

Of course both KVM and Xen will work nicely with a few scripts build taylored for your needs.

The "big" VMWare is in essence nothing more than a taylored Linux.

kjon · 2010-07-29 15:18:50

@rstantiba: Te caché wn! -- tu inglés vale hongo ¬¬'

Have a look to Darksoul71 told you. He's right. xD

rsantiba · 2010-08-02 01:36:02

kjon wrote:

@rstantiba: Te caché wn! -- tu inglés vale hongo ¬¬'

Dime algo que no hayas dicho antes, siempre sales con lo mismo ¬¬ aparte que me escribiste mal (@rstantiba) muajajaja.

kjon wrote:

Have a look to Darksoul71 told you. He's right. xD

Ok I Will ;-) Thanks Darksoul71 and all of you for your suggestions.

Last edited by rsantiba (2010-09-03 20:49:32)

cyberbandya · 2014-04-22 16:49:17

Hey finally you did not tell what you went with

ANOKNUSA · 2014-04-22 16:58:09

cyberbandya, the OP has posted to the forums 8 times in the last 4 years. It's very unlikely anyone's going to respond to this thread (even more unlikely when it's not at all clear who you are addressing). Please read the Forum Etiquette section on necrobumping.

Inxsible · 2014-04-22 17:10:15

bandya, do no necro bump !!

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.22

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