Sunday, March 16, 2008

HA into your OCS infrastructure

When designing your OCS infrastructure to provide more redundancy and HA you probably need load balancers to balance the LOAD of your company user requests. Attached a short summary of load balancers you can use:

http://www.f5.com/solutions/deployment/index_lcs.html
http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/microsoft-ocs-ltm94-dg.pdf

http://www.foundrynet.com/pdf/wp-ms-office-comm-serv-2007-load-bal.pdf

http://www.cainetworks.com/papers/webmux/lcs2005.htm
http://blogs.technet.com/uc/archive/2007/03/30/load-balancers-with-live-communications-server-2005.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/communicationsserver/FX011526591033.aspx

Enjoy and give me your feedback when using one of the above vendors.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here's an updated link for the first F5 deployment guide:

http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/lcs-bigip9-dg.pdf

Anonymous said...

Also take a look at the Citrix NetScaler, providing load balancing while having a very easy configuration for OCS.

http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=21679&ntref=hp_nav_US