Excerpts from Jay Pipes's message of 2013-12-26 08:58:10 -0800: > On 12/26/2013 07:43 AM, skywalker.n...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi stackers, > > I'm preparing for an OpenStack cloud in the production system. I've > > achieved HA and load balancing for most of the components to a certain > > degree. > > Finally I find it hard for Neutron to do such configuration. Are there > > any ways to run multiple l3-agents and dhcp-agents and cluster them > > together? > > Right, the Neutron L3 agent is the only OpenStack service that is not > stateless, and therefore you cannot use traditional load-balancing > across a set of identical nodes. > > That said, there's nothing wrong with running multiple L3 nodes, with > routers for different tenants hosted on different L3 agents. We do this > successfully in our deployment using a custom Neutron scheduler that my > colleague Alan Meadows wrote [1] and a Python script (also written by > Alan) that runs in cron looking for failures on an L3 agent and if > found, moves the routers from the failed node to a working one. [2] >
This sounds pretty great Jay. Do you have plans to submit it to Neutron as a standard feature? Pretty much everybody needs this. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
