Hardware Balancing Microsoft Lync
High Availability, high-performance communication...anytime, anywhere.
An enterprise highly available deployment of Microsoft Lync Server requires deploying multiple servers in Front End pools, Director pools, and or Edge Server pools, Load balancing is necessary when using multiple servers in a pool and a Load Balancer distributes the traffic among the servers.
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 supports two load balancing solutions: DNS load balancing and hardware load balancing. You can choose different load balancing solutions for each pool in your deployment. Hardware load balancers are also required to provide load balancing for the internal and external web services when DNS load balancing is used.
The KEMP LoadMaster combines versatility with ease-of-use to speed deployment (see our step-by-step guidelines in the LoadMaster Deployment Guide for Load Balancing Microsoft Lync 2010) of the complete portfolio of advanced messaging applications and protocols used by Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Layer 7 health checking at the LoadMaster ensures that should one of the servers become inaccessible, the load balancer will take that server off-line, while automatically re-routing and reconnecting users to other functioning servers.
The entire KEMP LoadMaster product family, including the Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) supports Microsoft Lync 2010, and includes a comprehensive first year warranty and technical support agreement. To learn more about how KEMP's Loadmaster can be used as part of your Microsoft Lync Deployment please register for a free full functional trial below.
- (click image to enlarge)Example Lync Environment with LoadMaster
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