Adobe Connect Load Balanced Environment
Fri, 07/18/2008 - 1:54pm — rwb5162
Hello, my name is Rudolph Brantley from the University of South Carolina. We are planning to upgrade from a single server environment to a load balanced environment with 4 application and one database server. Do Penn State use a specific monitoring software that monitors your Adobe Connect environment like CoRadiant? We are trying to figure out proper bandwidth requirements needed to have this new environment perform smoothly with some addition of online distance education classes that will use Adobe Connect.
Thanks,
Rudolph
Adobe Connect Load Balanced Environment
Hi Rudolph, sorry it took so long to reply to this. We use two pieces of monitoring software for our Adobe Connect environment.
The first is Ipswitch's Whatsup to ping the application servers, check and make sure the services are running on our two nodes, make the the http and https connections are online, monitor the event log, and ping the SQL server. The second is the built in performance monitor that is in Windows 2003 server.
The latter is more of a passive monitoring tool. If we start having problems with speed, etc., we will look at the logs of that. Just FYI, we have had no bandwitch issues with our installation of Connect. We utilize a dual 4G backbone, and with Microsoft network load balancing the meetings are fairly equally balanced between the two nodes.
How will you be doing the load balancing? With hardware or software? I would say to just use the proper bandwidth requirements set forth by Adobe.
Thanks,
Andy
Question
Andy, what is your university network setup for Adobe Connect right now for as how many applications servers, database servers do you have, type of load balance device being used (ex. BigIP), does your setup include connection to a file server and SAN? What version of Adobe Connect do you all have? Have you have any bandwidth problems with your network diagram setup? If so how was this problem handled?
Connect setup
Rudolph,
We have two application servers clustered together using Microsoft Network Load Balancing. One database server that is on a two node Microsoft cluster. We do not connect to a file server or SAN yet, we just store the content locally for now...that is until it gets too big. Microsoft network load balancing actually does a good job, and all the content is replicated on the other node almost instantaneously. We have had no bandwidth problems (yet) with our setup. We have a pretty big pipe coming into the server room.
Thanks,
Andy
good
Seems good...
does it provides some other features to the users?
no need...!
Re: Adobe Connect Load Balanced Environment
We will be using BigIP Load Traffic Manager hardware to load balance 4 applications servers, 1 database that is connected to a file server and the SAN.