Re: Clustering the way to go?
From: Don Wilwol (wilwol_at_capital.net)
Date: 02/10/05
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:07:04 -0500
Look into Microsoft's Application Center. It uses NLB and will help you with
the session state. It can also help you deploy and replicate the app to all
front end servers. Then have your app connect to a NAS as you suggested.
-- Don Wilwol http://spaces.msn.com/members/wilwol/ "John Staggs" <JohnStaggs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B5BA10BE-5692-4DF0-9B4A-18741831A770@microsoft.com... > I'm trying to decide on the best scenerio for us to use at work here with > our > web application. I'd love it if you guys would give some input on what > you'd > do to help give me a idea on what is the "Right" solution, because I don't > want to go and spend money on something that isn't right. Let me start > off > and explain our application about how it works, and what we currently have > setup. > > We have a asp.Net application over MSSQL to start off with. Currently we > have 3 frontend servers load balancing IIS, and using a 3rd part > application > to handle replication between the servers. We use a Alteon Load Balancer > to > handle the LB. Then we have 2x backend boxes running MSSQL. > > The application we run is just one website, but we have school districts > login from all over the United States that use it. The primary use of the > application is when the teachers fill out forms... Basically the teacher > will > go in, and select a form they need to fill out for a particular kid, and > it > will bring up the pdf, she then fills it out, and hits save and we save > the > data in a fdf that we store in a database and so if she ever needs to > use/edit that form again she goes back and all the data is stored etc. > > The scenerio I was looking at, was creating a cluster, having 3 frontend > servers attacahed to a SAN that housed the code&pdf's so replication > wouldn't > have to take place anymore, or creating a file server with 2x boxes and a > shared disk array to just handle the pdf's, and continue to load balance > the > frontends... The downfall to that is, we are having some session > persistance > problems using the load balancer. > > At this point I'm just trying to come up with a good solution, that will > not > effect the application performance negativley. If anyone could give some > insight on what they would do. Thanks.
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