Strategies for splitting load across varnish instances? And avoiding single-point-of-failure?

[Rob Ayres]

2010/1/15 Rob S <rtshilston at gmail.com>

> John Norman wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > A couple more questions:
> >
> > (1) Are they any good strategies for splitting load across Varnish
> > front-ends? Or is the common practice to have just one Varnish server?
> >
> > (2) How do people avoid single-point-of-failure for Varnish? Do people
> > run Varnish on two servers, amassing similar local caches, but put
> > something in front of the two Varnishes? Or round-robin-DNS?
> >
> We're running with two instances and round-robin DNS.  The varnish
> servers are massively underused, and splitting the traffic also means we
> get half the hit rate.  But it avoids the SPOF.
>
> Is anyone running LVS or similar in front of Varnish and can share their
> experience?
>

We run two varnish servers behind a netscaler load balancer to eliminate
SPOF. Works fine, as the previous poster mentions you lower your hit rate -
but not as much as I expected.

As far as load is concerned, we could easily use just one server and it
would probably still be 99% idle.
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