Load Balance Exchange 2010 Server

Hi Experts

 

Can any one give your input on this?

 

Hi!

 

 

We recently deployed Exchange 2010 in our organization together with Big-IP LTM and APM.

 

I found some useful information in the exchange iapp deployment guide regarding setup of VIPs and what protocols are involved in the different exchange services.

 

http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-gu...app-dg.pdf

 

 

Which loadbalancing method to choose depends on how you would like to distribute clients depending on server load; Doing simple round robin, or one of the more intelligent methods.

 

 

For RPC we use a simple tcp monitor on port 135. The HTTP based services can be monitored by a simple http monitor, or by something more specific for each service. Again, it depends on your needs.

 

 

We used the iApp template for exchange 2010 to get a basic config and then made customizations to that.

 

That got us up and running pretty fast with monitors and loadbalancing methods for the services we had chosen.

 

 

/Andreas

 

Deployment guide are very usefuel, you can almost totally based you configuration on those documents.

 

I'm deploying a two-CAS scenario right now and using only one IP address for using in 4 different VS:

 

 

1.- VS::80 only to redirecto to VS:443

 

2.- VS::443 for all HTTPs based Services

 

3.- VS::135 for non-http traffic (outlook client)

 

4.- VS::* for outlook client when using no-rpc ports in the same session.

 

 

Using this ONE-IP scenario makes use an iRule to define persistence based on the service accessed by the client but it's clearly deifined on the deployment guide.

 

 

Good luck with that!

 

 

HH