You can have separate virtual sites, one for each instance, and have each instance provide the health check. Hardware LB will then rotate between instances.
RUss > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 5:27 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Targetting an instance > > A simple health check that > works with the hardware loadbalancer that returns metrics data should > work, > assuming your loadbalancer supports this. > > ==== > > Not from my understanding-- though I could be very wrong. > It is my understanding that if I have a group of servers running IIS, > and a separate group of clustered servers running CF, then I have load > balancing going on at two different levels. > The first level is between the user and IIS, and the second level is > between IIS and my CF Instances. > My Hardware load balancer only sits between the user and the servers > running IIS. Keep in mind CF might not even be installed on those > servers. > Now once IIS gets the request from the hardware load balancer, the web > server connector uses my cluster algorithm (Let's say Round Robin) to > choose an instance in the cluster (assuming it is not static content > being served). At this point the hardware load balancer is out of the > picture. It is also at this point that I want my balancing to be based > on things like CPU. > >From what people are telling me though, the IIS connectors aren't smart > enough to do that. > > ~Brad > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273797 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
