Load Balancing query

ringo747 · 24 Apr 2012 at 20:56

Quick question for anyone who knows anything about hardware load balancing...

If you were setting up a new load balancer what all info would you ask me for?
I'm configuring a SharePoint farm which will have a number of LB'd front ends. Is it just a matter of giving them the details of my SharePoint application urls and the IP addresses of the two servers or what other info would I need for them or are there tons of config options?

ringo747 · 27 Apr 2012 at 11:08

I believe it is a Stringray product but I know no more than that.

ringo747 · 27 Apr 2012 at 11:28

We won't be using claims based auth but I believe the sticky-sessions will be enabled for things like InfoPath Forms that call SP Web Services.

ringo747 · 27 Apr 2012 at 12:02

Just on the SharePoint side... we have been provisioned page file and they are 16GB in size. The initial and max page file sizes are set to 16GB. Is this setting ok? The boxes have 8GB RAM.

ringo747 · 27 Apr 2012 at 13:47

Cool. So there is no issue setting the initial and max values to the same?

In summary, machine has 8GB RAM, I am manually setting the page file to my 16GB hard disk and specifying initial and max values of 16GB.

ringo747 · 27 Apr 2012 at 23:24

Yes Riverbed sounds familiar. Apparently some of the other guys have it up and running now but they need some more info on the SP side of things.