Hi Emilio,

 

I'm using version 1rc5, patched with the content3-3 fix that you
supplied and the GARP patch that Laura supplied. That combination gives
me working clustering and failover on remote LANs. I probably need to
wait for these patches to be included in the main release before I can
start playing around with different versions.

 

I'm only just starting testing the working solution so I have not yet
picked an algorithm yet, although I will probably start with
RR+Persistence. "Default" is not an option in the list (see screenshot).

 

 

 

The nice thing about the simple algorithm is that it will always result
in the server with the lowest number of connections (and hence lowest
load) being picked first. Our terminal server farms are under quite
heavy pressure and an unequal loading is very noticeable (In the very
early days we used DNS round-robin which was awful. We then swapped to
NLB which was better but a real pain to set up (static ARP entries and
the like. Eventually we ended up using some old F5 equipment I had lying
around but I am worried about hardware failure).

 

As I said before, I'm really grateful for this product and your
continued support. I'd be happy to contribute the results of my testing
once complete which might help other users. I've got some scripts for
vmware-based installations that take some of the pain out of making Zen
work nicely on VMWare if they are of any use.

 

Thanks

 

David

 

 

 

 

 

From: Emilio Campos [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 18 October 2011 15:43
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Zenloadbalancer-support] Algorithms

 

Hi David, which version of zen are you testing?, we are working on v2
version, the best thing is the new concept of profiles, we add profiles
for http and https, with better perssitence session , better solution
that the actual.

At the moment, and like  you commented on your mail, now the best
solution is select rr with persistence session, but remember that this
works persistence is on client-ip.

And about your Farm with RDP. Which algorithm are you using?, please try
with default algorithm (if you use v1rcX) or "roundrobin - persistence
client-time" (for v1stable),  you can go to status view on a farm,  and
you should check that for the same client IP connects to the same server

By other hand we recommend  you enter on "Max number of real ip servers"
field (by default 10), the number of backend that you have, for obtain
a more quickly connection. 

We are waiting your feedback.

2011/10/18 David Martin (IT) <[email protected]>

Hi all,

 

Now I have got a Zen cluster up-and-running successfully, I'm turning my
attention to the type of load balancing algorithm to use. 

 

I can see why Round-Robin with persistence is probably the best option
for things like http, every connection is fairly short lived and so the
balance remains good.

 

Since I want to use Zen for RDP, I think this might not work so well.
Each session can last for anything from 15 minutes up to eight hours and
so by the end of the day a simple round-robin would leave an unevenly
distributed farm.

 

On our current F5 boxes, we use an algorithm that always picks the
server with the fewest connections, but uses persistence to reconnect in
the event of a problem. Do any of the Zen or Pen modes allow for
something like this? I'm going to try with RR anyway to see if the
problem is big enough to worry about but it would be good to hear what
other people are doing for this kind of farm.

 

Regards

 

David

 

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