Load balancers, once almost exclusive to the realm of hardware devices, can now be implemented effectively in software on another server. The line between hardware and software load balancers is ...

Hey all, I have a client site that is running Ex2010 SP1 on 2 multi-role VMs in a DAG, for about 400 mailboxes across two DBs. The VMs are also HA via Hyper-V cluster. Currently, VM1 is hosting the ...

Or the balancer cant identify which server it belongs to? How do you want the server monitored? Each load balancer handles the different ways of stickyness differently, and in general it is easier to ...

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Given the way applications need to dynamically scale, load balancers have become a standard component of most IT environments. But when a developer initially builds their application, they often don’t ...

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Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...

A trend that has grown over the past decade or so to become pretty much the default view of infrastructure is to “software-ize” functionality that was formerly the domain of specialist hardware. It ...

Cloud computing and virtualization enable software teams to scale the number of instances a system hosts in response to changes in workload. Simply adding or removing a component like a microservice, ...

Considering Proxmox’s fairly minimal system requirements, you don’t need killer rigs to build a home lab. In fact, I’ve been using cheap mini-PCs, old thin clients, and aged gaming systems I could get ...