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Linux Enterprise Cluster: Build a Highly Available Cluster with Commodity Hardware and...
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by Karl Kopper
Sales Rank: 202209
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List Price: $49.95
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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: No Starch Press May 15, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593270364
ISBN-13: 978-1593270360
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Product Review
"A nice balance between detailed, hand-holding exposition and getting the concepts you need . . . to extend the recipes into your environment." -- ;login:, February 2006
A remarkably thorough introduction. -- PC Update (Australia), August 2005 (http://www.melbpc.org.au/pcupdate/2508/index.htm)
A seriously practical work which should readily prove its worth within enterprise scenarios. -- Linux User & Developer, August 2005,
I can see a battered copy of it, always lying around the server room. Battered, because it's so frequently referenced. -- LinuxFocus.org, July 17, 2005,
If you're serious about designing and implementing a low-cost production cluster using free software, this book's for you. -- Linux.com, August 25, 2005, applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/12/1640220&tid=115
If you’re interested in building a cluster at work, and need the motivation, the book is worth it. -- Linux Librarian, July 4, 2005
Not only provides a theoretical background but also a complete detail on how to actually implement [Linux clustering]. -- Readers Preference, June 2005
The writing is excellent, the subject matter wonderful, the level of detail just right for most people. -- RootPrompt.org, August 24, 2005, rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=9037
This tome explores the key technologies that underpin building real enterprise-level Linux clusters. -- Network World, June 6, 2005 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/060605gearhead.html
Walks one through projects and pitfalls step-by-step A ‘must-have’ for anyone interested in harnessing the power of a cluster. -- Midwest Book World, June 2005 http://www.midwestbookreview.com/rbw/jun_05.htm
Product Description
The Linux Enterprise Cluster explains how to take a number of inexpensive computers with limited resources, place them on a normal computer network, and install free software so that the computers act together like one powerful server. This makes it possible to build a very inexpensive and reliable business system for a small business or a large corporation. The book includes information on how to build a high-availability server pair using the Heartbeat package, how to use the Linux Virtual Server load balancing software, how to configure a reliable printing system in a Linux cluster environment, and how to build a job scheduling system in Linux with no single point of failure. The book also includes information on high availability techniques that can be used with or without a cluster, making it helpful for System Administrators even if they are not building a cluster. Anyone interested in deploying Linux in an environment where low cost computer reliability is important will find this book useful. The CD-ROM includes all of the software needed to build a Linux Enterprise Cluster, including the Linux kernel, rsync, the SystemImager package, the Heartbeat package, the Linux Virtual Server package, the Mon monitoring package, and the Ganglia package. All figures in the book are also included on the CD-ROM.
Customer Reviews & Comments
The book offers practical advice in putting together the hardware of several linux machines. Such that you end up with one big and robust computer. The attraction is price. The machines use commodity hardware and linux is free. As opposed to an expensive monolithic computer. The book's audience appears to be a sysadmin or network designer. Very details oriented. Much attention is given to system utilities that you will need to monitor this network that is the cluster. A big benefit of the book is in simply educating you as to what utilities have already been written under linux, to support clusters. The clustering described in the book does not seem to encompass mentioning Beowulf clusters. The latter is an alternative approach that has seen some adoption in scientific circles. I'm guessing that from what the book describes of a linux enterprise cluster, that the omission might be because linux now has the equivalent capability.
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Linux Enterprise Cluster: Build a Highly Available Cluster with Commodity Hardware and...
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