Piranha is the IP Load Balancing solution in Redhat Enterprise Linux. Piranha provides the ability to load-balance incoming IP network requests across a pool of servers. IP Load Balancing with Piranha is based on open source Linux Virtual Server (LVS) technology, with significant Red Hat enhancements. Piranha is strictly a software HA implementation which is the cluster package and the GUI administrative tool for the cluster.
Category: OpenSource LoadBalancer
UltraMonkey – Load Balance and High Availability solution
Ultra Monkey is a project to create load balanced and highly available network services. UltraMonkey is an opensource project that uses Linux Virtual Server and Heartbeat opensource projects.
Eddie – High Availability Custering Tool
Eddie is a high availability clustering tool. It is an open source, 100% software solution written primarily in the functional programming language Erlang (http://www.erlang.org/) and is available for Solaris, Linux and *BSD.
balance – TCP proxy RoundRobin Load Balancer
Balance from inLab Software GmBH is a simple, generic TCP proxy, which allows simple round-robin load balancing and graceful failover between several destination servers.
Balance is available at http://balance.sourceforge.net/.
Linux Virtual Server (LVS)
The project Linux Virtual Server is aimed to
"Build a high-performance and highly available server for Linux using clustering technology, which provides good scalability, reliability and serviceability."
The LVS cluster system is also known as load balancing server cluster.
EzPlanet WRT Wireless Router and Load Balancer
This project is to build an enhanced firmware for Linksys WRT54GS (versions 1.0 to 3.0 with 32MB RAM/8MB Flash) and similar routers, offering multiple Internet service providers Load Balance and Server Load Balancing capabilities (Layer 2). The Server Load Balancer technology is from by http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/.