A few weeks ago the AutoScale feature was released and it is already getting some great enhancements. AutoScale is still based on CPU usage, though you can now change the scaling based on a schedule. You can set different setting for Week Days, Week Nights, and Weekends. Though you don’t have full control on how the […]
Posts Tagged ‘high availability’
The Third Day of Lync’mas: SQL DB Mirroring
This is part three of a twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the third day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: three SQL Servers
The Twelve Days of Lync’mas: Introduction
I am sure you are familiar with the old holiday tune, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” My favorite rendition as a child was by John Denver and the Muppets. We had the record- yes, actual vinyl- and would play it over and over again while decorating the Christmas tree. Growing up, I never really knew what was […]
Amazon Web Services Goes Down – Availability In the Cloud
So CRN had an article about Amazon Web Services going down this past Monday. While that is certainly news, especially to a small number of people, I want to focus on total impact rather than the big scary word called outage. Our reality in the cloud is that high availability cannot be achieved in the […]
Configuring Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Let me just get this out of the way: I am not a big fan of Windows NLB (Network Load Balancing) clusters. They are not inteligent in the sense that they cannot tell when a node is not serving up a page properly, or a web application pool crashed for example. Sometimes when you have a […]