Load balancing Notes SMTP service on W2k3 Cluster

[Ydwor]

Hi everyone,


this one comes from one of our clients. They wanna setup 2 Notes Domino servers (6.5.3) and have these clustered with the W2k3 Cluster service. Specifically they´re aiming at having a Load Balancing solution for the Notes Http and Smtp service this way...

Anyone who´s got some experience with this scenario? Just wanna know if it might work..

Thnx very much in advnce!

 

[woonjas]

I have no experience with windows clustering (don't even know if it provides load balancing, or if it's possible to configure two domino servers with windows clustering).

Regarding SMTP, just create two mx records for your domain in the DNS, one for each domino server.

And for HTTP, you could setup a Domino cluster with the servers running the ICM (Internet Cluster Manager) task, in combination with DNS round robin pointing to the ICM on both servers.

For more information about setting up domino clustering and the ICM checkout the Administration help database that's installed by default on your server(s) and administration client.

Cheers,


Woonjas
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