Re: OT - servers between two data centres

i would go with f5 or kemp load balancers, maybe netscaler as 3rd option

also check global dns load balancer for global dns load balancing

if you are failing over between two data centers than your clients are
probably at a third location or outside those datacenters then dns LB could
work.

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:36 PM, marc abel <marcabel_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> A good load balancer can work active/standby or active/active. There are
> some open source solutions such as Linux Virtual Machine that you may want
> to look into.
>
> I'm not sure of a way to do it with Cisco protocols.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Tony Singh <mothafungla_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mark
> >
> > Would the load balancer work active standby?
> >
> > Is their another solution with cisco protocols due to costs
> >
> > --
> > BR
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone on 3
> >
> > On 8 Nov 2012, at 19:41, marc abel <marcabel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Use a load balancer.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Tony Singh <mothafungla_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Sorry for OT.
> >>
> >> What would the best design be with regards to HA if one server stops
> >> pinging to switch to data centre 2
> >>
> >> data centre 1 < (disk replication) > data centre 2
> >> server 1 server 2
> >>
> >> would FHRP satisfy the requirement? tested this on some hardware and can
> >> get the switch to take place to data centre 2 but this would be for
> server
> >> to outbound traffic, I need to also consider inbound to data centre of
> >> customer connections?
> >>
> >> Any advice would be greatly appreciated
> >>
> >> Tony
> >>
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> > Marc Abel
> > CCIE #35470
> > (Routing and Switching)
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