Implementing a Linux-HA based clustering setup on Windows
- by Alex
I have a (tried and tested) setup involving:
2x Load balancing nodes on a floating IP via Heartbeat, load balancing 2 tomcat servers.
2x Tomcat servers
2x Galera Cluster MySQL servers synchronously replicating (+1 arbitrator node)
All are evenly spread across 2 physical nodes.
Now, I have to somehow get the same functionality on Windows Server (2008? I think) nodes .... running under Xen virtualization. There is no possibility to use Linux for any of the nodes.
I count two main problems:
No Linux-HA hearbeat daemon for the load balancing
No Galera synchronous replication for MySQL
I freely admit to having nearly no Windows knowledge when it comes to clustering. Is there a way to closely mimic the setup I have described or is it a total write-off?