A key component in a number of highly available Exchange 2013 implementations is multisite availability with geo load balancing. Building Exchange to work across more than one data center mitigates the major business risk that comes with keeping Exchange Server on-premises — the loss of a data center or site due to a power issue,…
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know that I produce the free Exchange 2010 Virtual Load Balancer, based on HAProxy. However, that’s really aimed at lab use, so you might wonder what I usually recommend in it’s place.. So, it’s about time I wrote about the KEMP LoadMaster, ran through a quick…
An extra added cost to Exchange 2010 deployments is often a hardware load balancer, or even virtual load balancer appliances. These start at over £1000 for some of the cheaper ones and can cost tens of thousands, however there’s open source software out there that can do the same thing, just as well. I’ve wrapped…