I have used windows load-balancing with 2 front-end OWA servers for 3+ years, serving ~3000 users. Never had any problems.
Also I have 3 SMTP gateways that are load-balanced and handle ~1,000,000 messages per day each - load-balancing is performing quite well. -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:51 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: multiple OWA servers You can depend on round-robin DNS to do this, or implement Windows Network Load Balancing or, preferably, a hardware load balancing device to take care of this for you. Round-robin DNS will effectively balance load but doesn't tolerate failures, i.e., if one of two front-end servers fail, about one in two requests will fail. Load balancing is fault tolerant. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Hlabse Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: multiple OWA servers I was looking a bit and didn't see anything on this but was curious. If you have mutiple OWA front-end servers (E2K) and when you publish the url for users to access their email via the web client. How Exchange handles which user get which server. Do they all hit the default OWA server and it just knows which OWA server handles that user mailbox? I never saw this explained very well. Has anybody seen a write-up on this and could forward a link for this. Also an install guide for this type of config. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
