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danny_70861
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Jun 16, 2009

SharePoint configuration

Im trying to figure out which is best for my sharepoint 2007 farm.

 

In the load balancing method: round-robin or least connection

 

 

Also, I was reading Joel Olson's blog about load balancing sharepoint and he said to make sure "your sessions are sticky" what setting in the config pertains to that comment?

 

 

If you guys wanna share any best practice configurations for SharePoint that would be awesome

 

 

 

Thanks in advance!
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  • dennypayne's avatar
    dennypayne
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    Jun 16, 2009
    I use a dynamic lb method over round robin if at all possible to allow the LTM to respond to changing conditions on the servers.

     

     

    Sticky sessions = persistence. That is, making sure that once a client is initally load-balanced, he continues to be sent to the same server for the rest of his session. Ideally cookie persistence should be used for web applications, because using source IP persistence can result in the situation where many clients that happen to come from behind the same proxy will all be sent to the same server.

     

     

    Denny
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    danny_70861
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    Jun 16, 2009
    Thanks for the reply Denny, I appreciate you input.

     

     

    so is dynamic lb the Least Connections Mode?

     

  • dennypayne's avatar
    dennypayne
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    Jun 16, 2009
    That's one of them, the others I would consider are:

     

     

    Fastest - fastest response time

     

    Observed - Ratio based on least connections observations

     

    Predictive - Trending on Observed

     

     

    See SOL6406 (Click here) for more info.

     

     

    Denny