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Install and Configure Linux Virtual Server (LVS) for Load Balancing
Linux Virtual Server (LVS) is a highly available and highly scalable virtual server that is built on a cluster of actual servers using a load balancer. This approach allows the service that is being provided to appear as a single Linux server. In this hands-on lab, you are tasked with setting up LVS in order to provide a virtual service for two Apache HTTP servers.

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Table of Contents
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Challenge
Load the IPVS kernel module.
Load in the IPVS kernel module.
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Challenge
Install the IPVS administration utility package.
Use
yum
to install the IPVS administration package. -
Challenge
Enable packet forwarding and non-local IP address binding.
Add the IP forward and IP nonlocal bind directives to
/etc/sysctl.conf
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Start up the `ipvsadm` service and ensure that it persists through reboot.
Create the
ipvsadm
configuration file and enable and start theipvsadm
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Configure the virtual service and specify the scheduling algorithm.
Add the virtual service and specify the scheduling algorithm.
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Challenge
Add the real servers to the virtual service and specify a packet forwarding method.
Add
real-server1
andreal-server2
to the virtual service.
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