load-balancing

Spring schedulers in a load balanced environment

Hi, I have multiple quartz cron jobs in a load balanced environment. Currently these jobs are running on each node, which is not desirable. I want a node to run only a particular scheduler and if the node crashes, another node should run the scheduler intended for the node that crashed. How can this be done with spring 2.5.6/tomcat load ...

How to make active services highly available?

I know that with Network Load Balancing and Failover Clusteringwe can make passive services highly available. But what about active apps? Example: One of my apps retrieves some content from a external resource in a fixed interval. I have imagined the following scenarios: Run it in a single machine. Problem: if this instance falls, the...

F5 Load Balancer- ASPXAuth Cookie

Can somebody explain what ASPXAuth cookie does? My website uses forms auth and I am trying to create a load balancer (hardware) rule which will keep track of sessions based on the aspxauth cookie. Is it safe assume that the value of the cookie is unique? Thanks. ...

How does load balancing work with multiple server with multiple DBs

I guess what im looking for is a description on how this all works together. I'm used to setting up one server with maybe another server to handel the DB. My question is how does the load balancer work where do all the script(php,python) files go? If i make a change to one i have to rsync them to all the server that the balancer refers...

Load balancing and sessions

Hi there, What is the better approach for load balancing on web servers? My services run in .NET and Mono, so they could be hosted on IIS or Apache2, and the will have to provide SSL connection. I've read two main approaches, store the state in a common server and use sticky sessions, there is any other else? I've read 3 diffent thin...

Two versions of same asp.net app using same server as stateserver - bad?

We have 2 production web servers for our web app, load balanced to handle lots of traffic. We also have a similar setup for testing. Test pool: [TEST 1]---[TEST 2] Prod pool: [PROD 1]---[PROD 2] When comparing the Web.Config of the app versions (test vs live) I discovered something surprising: both pools have the same value ...

Biztalk Server 2009 - Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing (NLB)

Hi, We are planning a Biztalk 2009 set up in which we have 2 Biztalk Application Servers and 2 DB Servers (DB servers being in an Active/Passive Cluster). All servers are running Windows Server 2008 R2. As part of our application, we will have incoming traffic via the MSMQ, FILE and SOAP adapters. We also have a requirement for High-av...

What is the best way for communication between cluster nodes

I have an application written in a combination of ASP/VB6/VBScript and ASP.NET/C# that consists of a website part, SOAP-like webservice part and a queue processing part processing incoming files in a hotfolder. We are used to running under load balancers (Microsoft or other make). Often we need to communicate between the different load ...

NLB and Web Deploy

I have two webservers in a cluster serving a web application. Using MS Web Deploy to push a new version of the application to one server, and then again to synchronize the files to the other server in the cluster. It seems to be the most ordinary thing to do. But wouldn't there be a problemm, when one server is deployed with the new v...

Biztalk - how do I set up MSMQ load balancing and high availability ?

Hi, From what I understand, in order to achieve MSMQ load-balancing, one must use a technology such as NLB. And in order to achieve MSMQ high-availability, one must cluster the related Biztalk Host (and hence the underlying servers have to be in a cluster themselves). Yet, according to Microsoft Documentation, NLB and FailOver Cluste...

Deploying multiple Grails instances with shared cache and sessions ?

Hello, I am looking for a solution that allows me to deploy multiple load balanced Grails instances that have shared cache (EhCache Server ?) and sessions, is this possible ? I can't find any documentation on this (connecting to a common EhCache server or using Distributed EhCache, and sharing sessions (using EhCache too ?))... I'm lo...

PF, load balanced gateways, and Squid

Hi, So I have a FreeBSD router running PF and Squid, and it has three network interfaces: two connected to upstream providers (em0 and em1 respectively), and one for LAN (re0) that we serve. There is some load balancing configured with PF. Basically, it routes all traffic to ports 1-1024 through one interface (em0) and everything else t...

Windows/.NET Load Distribution & Balancing

Hi all, Is there a vetted Windows-friendly, or even .NET-native, load-distributing/load-balancing utility out there along the lines of HA Proxy? We have a .NET stack product, and the one piece that we step out of the stack is for load-balancing. We need something with configurable rules for distribution -- perhaps subdomain-driven -- t...

GWT load testing with jmeter

Hi folks, I have a GWT application and wanna to test load and functionality using a tool like jmeter. I am not sure jmeter is right tool for GWT. Can anybody direct me to proper tool or can tell me how to do it with jmeter? I want to test login functionality: I have two text box 'User name' and 'Password' on login screen and want to te...

MySQL replication - Should I handle load balancing from my client code (PHP) ?

In a MySQL master-slave replication enviroment if I have 4 slave servers how can I execute load balanced select queries? Should I write a PHP class to dealing with the 4 slaves or it is possible to address queries to MySQL's own load balancer solution? Is there any MySQL load balancing solution? Can I use some other tool to distribute...

Tomcat Load Balalncing - Programatic Parameter Based ??

Here's the scenario: Many users access an application (running on tomcat), the user's data is segmented into multiple databases, say each db containing 1000 user's data. Now is it somehow possible to have 100s of tomcat servers running on 'inexpensive' PC class machines with each connecting to a single db, with user's session getting ...

php csv high load request

i have PHP serve and one csv file . i need to read csv file and send the data to the browser. if individual request = 10,000 or more (may be) then reading csv file from harddisk may be costly.how can i efficiently read csv file from PHP and send the data to the browser. there is no option to read data form relational db. only browser<--...

How is load balancing in big systems implemented?

Hello, I'm wondering how is implemented load balancing in realy big applications like google or facebook. I know that in normal scenario there may be machine dedicated to this task, but I would like to know how is it resolved in realy big aplication with hundreds of thousans people accessing it in any given time. I am just wondering how ...

geographical deployment Vs geo load balancing SharePoint 2010

we have a company wide SharePoint portals planned for few thousand users. since the users are distributed among different countries and their applications (hosted in sharepoint) We would like to consider geo deployment Vs geo load balancing. Please share your inputs. We are aware of this, Geo SharePoint Cluster facilitates - Farms a...

Clustering in ServiceMix 4

Hello, I'm trying to configure Apache ServiceMix 4 to provide load balancing feature mentioned in it's documentation (for example here: http://servicemix.apache.org/clustering.html). Although it's mentioned, I couldn't find the exact way how to do it. The idea is to have 2 ServiceMixes (in LAN, for example) with the same OSGi service i...