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Figure 7-1. A Basic LVS Configuration
Service requests arriving at the LVS cluster are addressed to a virtual IP address or VIP.
This is a publicly-routable address the administrator of the site associates with a fully-
qualified domain name, such as www.example.com, and which is assigned to one or more
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virtual server . Note that a VIP address migrates from one LVS router to the other during a
failover, thus maintaining a presence at that IP address, also known as floating IP addresses.
VIP addresses may be aliased to the same device which connects the LVS router to the
Internet. For instance, if eth0 is connected to the Internet, than multiple virtual servers can
be aliased to . Alternatively, each virtual server can be associated with a separate
eth0:1
device per service. For example, HTTP traffic can be handled on , and FTP traffic
eth0:1
can be handled on .
eth0:2
Only one LVS router is active at a time. The role of the active router is to redirect service
requests from virtual IP addresses to the real servers. The redirection is based on one of
eight supported load-balancing algorithms described further in Section 7.3 LVS Scheduling
Overview.
1. A virtual server is a service configured to listen on a specific virtual IP. Refer to Section 10.6
VIRTUAL SERVERS for more on configuring a virtual server using the Piranha Configuration
Tool.