Why don't you spread out each of your server farm over the two Big
Irons's (BI1-2) and trunk (dot1q) that VLAN across the routers. All your
servers will be active and serve the VIP (since you mentioned DSR). In
case of a BI1 failure, SI2 will take over with the remaining servers on
BI2 still being active...
hope that helps,
Nimesh.
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Markus Wernig IT2 wrote:
> hi all
>
> someone came up with as solution that's so simple and seems so effective i wonder if i'm missing something.
>
> he wants to bind the vips on the SI to 4 real servers: 2 out of the server farm connected to the SI's switch, 2 out of the other server farm, but with a very low priority compared with the first 2
> (and vice versa on the second SI).
>
> so if switch1 fails, SI2 takes over SI1's vip, and, not being able to reach the first 2 real servers on the failed switch, disables them and uses the 2 with lower priority on its own switch.
>
> so, in case of failover, one farm is still dead, but at least all requests will be served by the remaining farm.
>
> can anyone comment on this?
>
> tnx markus
>
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