My experience with loadbalancing over the past three years is stay with a
hardware solution. Software solutions, like Microsoft Clustering, tend to
be a pain in the rump. It ties up more system resources on webserver.
The only exception is my SQL servers, I cluster two servers using Legato
(software based). Works like a champ. No need for enterprise editions of
NT or SQL.
Jacob
At 03:47 PM 9/11/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Am I correct to assume that if you're using a hardware loadbalancer,
>then CF Enterprise is unnecessary?
>
>Jim
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Monday, September 11, 2000 3:30 PM
>Subject: RE: CF Clustering
>
>
> >That is what we do.
> >
> >Load Balance 10 webservers in WSD
> >All servers run NT 4.0, SP5, Website Pro 2.5 and CF 4.0.1 Enterprise
> >(nothing else)
> >All servers have their content updated through a file sync program.
> >Database is SQL 7.0, which also stores client variables.
> >
> >At 04:32 PM 9/11/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>So using Radware WSD or BigIP, do you still need Enterprise Edition of
>CF or
> >>you can basically just hook up several Professional versions of CF
>servers
> >>to such a device especially if the user state is managed with client
> >>variables in a centralized DB storage?
> >>
> >>Any comments appreciated..
> >>
> >>/pinkesh
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >>Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 4:14 PM
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: RE: CF Clustering
> >>
> >>
> >>Radware's WSD (http://www.radware.com) does the same thing, but
>better. I
> >>have used both BigIP and WSD. Used WSD for almost 4 years. WSD is
>1/2 the
> >>price.
> >>
> >>At 05:47 PM 9/8/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >> >We're buying a hardware solution called the BigIP
>(http://www.bigip.com).
> >> >It's a load balancing/failover solution with firewall capabilities.
>It's
> >> >spendy at 40K, but does exactly what we need.
> >> >We'll be using the Win2k file replication.
> >> >
> >> >Cheers
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >> >Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 4:41 PM
> >> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> >Subject: CF Clustering
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Does anyone have a link or pointer to information regarding how to
> >> >cluster CF web servers? We're looking to upgrade our web and
>database
> >> >servers and I'd like to hear about the various approaches taken to
> >> >clustering CF web servers.
> >> >
> >> >Ideally, I'd like to achieve load-balancing and failover via
>redundancy.
> >> >For our purposes the load-balancing doesn't have to be perfect, but
>the
> >> >failover must be automatic and transparent. I'm assuming we'd run
> >> >several redundant web/CF servers connected to a common MS SQL
>server.
> >> >For the time being, I don't think we'd run a common fileserver for
>the
> >> >web site templates or other static content. Files would need to be
> >> >replicated on all servers.
> >> >
> >> >With this configuration, I was wondering about things like the best
>way
> >> >to (1) achieve the load balancing (hardware and/or software needs?),
> >> >considering that CF sessions need to be maintained (2) a good means
>of
> >> >replicating content accross servers (3) other considerations?
> >> >
> >> >Thanks for any input,
> >> >Jim
>
>
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