Data center services with multiple compute paths?

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Anyone here work in a data center or in network operations? I'm looking to set up a system that provides fault tolerance and scalability through replicated services that have different servers.

For example, suppose some "service" can be run through (1) a web server, an SQL server, and a compute node in serial fashion. I would then like to replicate that whole "service" through a different set of servers but with different characteristics, like though (2) a web server and an SQL server only, where the SQL server runs some kind of stored procedure in lieu of a compute node.

Basically I want to provide redundancy and parallel execution through different data and compute paths. Anyone know of best practices, or have some URLs to related information?
 

spidey07

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Aug 4, 2000
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Maybe try to describe the application? Load balancers can do exactly what you want, but it all depends on how the application actually works.