[Varnish] #621: Varnish pooling feature - ala memcached like Varnish(es)

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#621: Varnish pooling feature - ala memcached like Varnish(es)
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 Reporter:  pubcrawler.com  |        Type:  enhancement
   Status:  new             |    Priority:  normal     
Milestone:                  |   Component:  build      
  Version:  trunk           |    Severity:  normal     
 Keywords:                  |  
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 Have we considered adding pooling functionality to Varnish much like
 what they have in memcached?

 Run multiple Varnish(es) and load distributed amongst the identified
 Varnish server pool....  So an element in Varnish gets hashed and the
 hash identifies the server in the pool it's on.  If the server isn't
 there or the element isn't there cold lookup to the backend server
 then we store it where it should be.

 Seems like an obvious feature - unsure of the performance implications
 though.

 The recommendation of load balancers in front on Varnish to facilitate
 this feature seems costly when talking about F5 gear.   The open
 source solutions require at least two severs dedicated to this load
 balancing function for sanity sake (which is costly).  Finally, Vanish
 already offers load balancing (although limited) to the back end
 servers - so lets do the same within Varnish to make sure Varnish
 scales horizontally and doesn't require these other aids to be deemed
 totally reliable.

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Ticket URL: <http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ticket/621>
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