High avaliabilty for IMAP/PROXY

[Fabio S. Schmidt]

Thanks Ken and Michael for the answers !

Kind regards,
Fabio

On 19 September 2014 04:49, Michael Menge
<michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quoting "Fabio S. Schmidt" <fabio at improve.inf.br>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> - Sorry if it seems to be a little off-topic -
>>
>> We have deployed Cyrus Aggregator and currently we provide load
>> balancing and high availability for the Cyrus Front Ends through DNS.
>> With this scenario, if a Frontend is unavailable it will receive
>> connections unless we remove it from the DNS record for the IMAP
>> service.
>>
>> Does anyone have any better ideas to improve the high availability? I
>> was wondering about using HAPROXY vs NGINX but I do not know their
>> behaviours in cases like I mentioned above.
>>
>
> We use ClusterIP for load balancing and HA. With ClusterIP you use one
> IP for all of your Cyrus Front Ends. The ClusterIP will use a multicast
> MAC an the local firewall cluisterIP rule determin which of the frontends
> will be used, by hashing source IP, [source Port], [destination Port] in
> a hash. These hash is distributed to N buckets and each bucket must be
> serviced by one of your front ends. If one front end goes down you configure
> the buckets of that front end on the other front ends.
>
> http://www.rkeene.org/projects/info/wiki/102
> http://www.linux-ha.org/ClusterIP
>
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My best regards,
Fabio Soares Schmidt


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