Conclusion

LVS is an effective way to implement clustering of Internet services. Tools such as heartbeat, ldirectord and keepalived can be used to give the cluster high availability. There are a number of other techniques that can be used to further enhance LVS clusters including using active feedback to determine the proportion of connections allocated to each of the real servers. As well as connection synchronisation and active active techniques to multiple linux directors to better work together. LVS itself is a very powerful tool and has many features that were not within the scope of this presentation. These include; firewall marks to group virtual services, specialised scheduling algorithms and various tuning parameters. Beyond that there is much scope for further expanding the functionality of LVS to meet the new needs of users and to reflect the ever increasing complexity of the Internet.