Timeline for SharePoint 2010 NLB with Multiple Web Applications
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| Apr 25, 2016 at 12:09 | comment | added | Andy Dawson | If you have another server you could use as a load balancer, it's also worth considering Application Request Routing (ARR), which is a free add-in for IIS. It seems to work far better than NLB and I find it easier to configure! See iis.net/downloads/microsoft/application-request-routing for details. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 11:27 | comment | added | Andy Dawson | Note that you may need to do a bit of binding work in IIS if this is the case as you'll need to remap the bound IP address to one of the NLB VIPs instead. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 11:26 | comment | added | Andy Dawson | Don't worry about the AAMs at all. The easiest way to get everything running is to configure NLB to accept traffic on all ports with both servers in the NLB group. That will forward anything that hits the NLB address to one of the two servers. Then, change the DNS entries for all addresses that SharePoint will serve to the virtual IP address of the NLB. NLB forwards the traffic to one of the servers, SharePoint sorts it out when the traffic hits the server itself. If you have SSL and need more than one IP address, just add more to the list of IP addresses that NLB deals with (i.e. more VIPs). | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 10:42 | comment | added | Des Owen | Thanks Andy. I think my confusion is around how AAM maps to the NLB cluster or clusters. I'm also not sure if I would need two NLB clusters (one for each web application) or a single one. I tried AAM with a single cluster (say, cluster) and couldn't find a way to map the second Web Application using the same cluster. So, if I had a single cluster, and two web applications (webapp1 and webapp2) what would AAM look like in terms of its default zone please? I believe I need to map the cluster url to the web application in AAM. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 10:23 | history | answered | Andy Dawson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |