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recur_76283
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May 22, 2007

Load Balancing Windows Streaming

Hi,     I have four Windows 2003 Enterprise servers running Windows Media Services all configured for streaming the same content to users on the internet.     I would like to load balance ...
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Tech_Imp_40243
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May 22, 2007
Hello,

 

 

Some initial suggestions are:

 

 

Least connections (node)

 

Because of what is likely to be variable session lengths for different types of content, I would suggest setting the load balancing option to least connections (node) this will help better even out the traffic over time.

 

 

Health Monitor Tuning

 

Try a TCP health monitor that may check for the following:

 

Interval 5

 

Timeout 16

 

Manual Resume No

 

Method GET

 

Command GetServerStats

 

Metrics ServerBandwidth:1.5, CPUPercentUsage, MemoryUsage,

 

TotalClientCount

 

Agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 5.0; Windows NT)

 

 

nPath routing

 

Consider having the BigIP make the load balancing decision but use a nPath routing configuration so that once the balancing decision is made the RTSP traffic is not routed back through the BigIP and is routed directly from the server to internet. This option can be a bit tricky. Take a look at our deployment guide on AskF5 at:

 

https://tech.f5.com/home/bigip-next/manuals/bigip9_4/bigip9_4implementation/BIG-IP_9_4_Implementation_Gd-03-1.htmlwp1061202

 

and if you run into issues with the implementation I would suggest you work directly with a support engineer to get up and running.