Hi Nick, I write down over your mail.
Keep on your great work!
Regards,
Laura.
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Nick Furnell <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Guys******
>
> ** **
>
> Just to keep you up to date after one month of running Zen Load Balancer
> (ZLB), first RC4 then RC5, this is how things stand for me. ****
>
> ** **
>
> I am using 2 clustered ZLB boxes running under VMWare, 4.1 to front a
> number of internal production services: 5 Farm definitions managing my
> Citrix application deployment (PNAgent), Citrix Web interface (XenApp), our
> company CRM & internal SMTP delivery****
>
> **
>
It sounds great! :)
> **
>
> ** **
>
> *Outstanding Issues (RC4 / RC5):*
>
> 1. RC5 - If you choose ‘Round Robin Persistent’ connection when you create
> a farm, and then go and edit farm later, this option is not available. You
> only see Default, RoundRobin, Hash, Weight & Priority?****
>
> **
>
We're going to check this issue and we'll apply it to the stable v1.
> **
>
> 2. RC4 - The 'weight' and ‘priority’ options do not appear to have any
> effect on how traffic is allocated. I have tried setting my two SMTP
> servers to extremes in order to see what happens – one set to 1 the other to
> 100 (first using ‘weight’ then using ‘priority’). I set the Memorized
> time to 100000 (27 hours) then left the services running for a day to see
> the results. All that happens is the first defined server gets all the
> traffic. I need to do this again with RC5, but it will take 4 days to do all
> the combinations.****
>
> * *
>
I remember that this issue was reported before. I've been checking the load
balancing core source code and the 'roundrobin' option has to be combined
with the 'weight' or 'priority' algorithm to be used as expected. We're
going to patch it for the stable v1.
> **
>
> *Suggested Enhancements:*
>
> · Provide an option to Rename a Farm – I have been forced to
> delete the Farm just to change its name (not great)
>
****
>
> · Button to force/test fail over between nodes in the cluster –
> useful for testing, but will need a 2nd ‘Are you sure’ button.****
>
> · An option to Start All Interfaces and a Start All Farms button –
> as they do not appear to start on their own? Starting each one in turn is
> ok when you only have a few, but its a little painful.
>
Be sure that these new features will be implemented on the next v2 version.
> ****
>
> · When viewing the list of Farms, and hovering the mouse over the
> icon of a server with the blue dot, the wording currently says “Manage the
> xxx Farm”, where as the button actually shows the STATUS of the Farm. Can
> I suggest you re-word this Hover Over element?
>
You're right this is a bit confusing. We're going to change it for the
stable V1 version.
****
>
> · Some clearer documentation on the FarmGuardian – I am struggling
> with how to set this up to monitor some standard services eg. SMTP and an
> active Web page (looking for a particular word on a Web page, not just IIS
> saying hello)****
>
> **
>
Yes, we know that the documentation has to be better and clearer. We're
working on this.
> **
>
> Thanks again for a great product, and I look forward to helping support its
> on going development.****
>
> ** **
>
> Nick Furnell****
>
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