Hardware based load balancing for Management Points and Software Update Points?
Has anyone been able to test using a hardware load balancing device for load balancing the Management Point and / or Software Update Point roles? If so what type of device did you test with and what were the results? We plan on testing the BIG IP F5 device in this capacity and are wondering if there have been any other attempts yet.
September 14th, 2007 7:45pm

As a disclaimer, we only test and support Microsoft NLB. Other NLB solutions should work just fine and we've had anecdotal reports of people using third party NLB solutions successfully. Make sure you configure it in the administrator console just like you would a Microsoft NLB (i.e. set the NLB virtual IP/hostname as the NLB MP) otherwise you will very likely see very strange client behavior. One more thing to keep in mind is if you're not using a Microsoft NLB, you willprobably see some false negatives generated by the mpcontrol monitoring processes as you will have an NLB configured, but its monitoring won't find some WMI hooks that it expects on the servers to perform some validations. Again, I have to stress that we only test and support Microsoft NLB, so if you go with a third party solution, you're on your own. But, since NLB is mostly an abstract concept, it should work. Obviously, there's a big "your mileage may vary" attached to that previous statement since it's untested and unsupported.
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September 17th, 2007 7:08pm

I expect to be testing this in the next couple of weeks, specifically with Big IP F5. I will feedback the results through this forum.
September 19th, 2007 12:09pm

Does anybody have any step by step document for configuring MPin NLB for SCCM Native mode?
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December 9th, 2007 1:59am

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