[NCLUG] help finding documentation for unique cluster setup

[DJ Eshelman]

Sounds like fun.  I've had a similar project on the backburner for months -
I had bought a book on it - The Linux Enterprise Cluster by Karl Kopper (I
got it at Barnes and Noble if I recall correctly).  But honestly, I haven't
had the time to fully dive into it...

I'm curious to see your progress, however.  I'm swimming in a mountain of
'commodity' equiptment - it'd be a shame to just put it all in a landfill,
but individually, a Celeron 500 processor doesn't amount to much these days
:)

-DJ

On 7/17/06, Mike Jensen <jentfoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> First of all let me apologize for my ignorance. I am very well off in
> linux,
> but am new to clustering. I have purchased a couple boxes to learn how to
> cluster better, these will also be used as the house file server (and a
> few
> other minor services). So far I have found lots of information about
> creating a beowulf style of cluster but that is not really what I want to
> do. What I want is to have them do load balancing, but what I am really
> having issues with is I want them to share disk space. Sorta like having a
> raid 0 between two machines. That way I can connect to the main node and
> have one of its mount points be a combination of a local drive, and an NFS
> drive on the other node. I assume NFS is what I will be using, if this is
> not the best way to go please point me in the right direction. Also I am
> assuming that the main node will have two gigabit network cards. One to
> connect to the router, so the clients can access it, and one for
> communication to the other node. I have not been able to find much info
> about how to setup a cluster like this, so any documentation and help
> would
> be nice.
>
> Again sorry I am new to cluster computing, so I may be way off on how it
> needs to be setup. For easy refrence here are my goals:
> 1) Learn more about cluster computing, and get some hands on experince
> 2) Have a large amount of file storage available for media (data integrity
> is not a concern, it would not matter if the data is lost, although if
> possible it would be _nice_ to only lose som data should a node fail)
> 3) although not needed, it would be nice to set this up to be load
> balancing
> beteween the two machines, just for the experince
>
> Thanks in advance
> cheers,
> Mike Jensen
> jentfoo at gmail.com
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