[racktables-users] Re: loadbalancer as a vm

  • From: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:52:32 +0000

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 05:44 -0500, Dave Augustus wrote:
> Is it a "good" practice to have a VM serve as a load balancer?

I have a number of critical, including network/routing services, running
on VMs. However, do remember that if your VM host (or client of course)
runs an iptables firewall, that you must tune the netfilter/conntrack
settings to deal with the higher network load.

Regards,
Tyler

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