Scale to a Load Balanced Edge Server Walkthrough

Topic Last Modified: 2009-07-14

Many enterprises begin their Office Communications Server deployment with a Edge environment that is not load balanced, consisting of a single consolidated Edge Server and a single reverse proxy. As the organization’s use of the product becomes increasingly mission critical, it is common to move this to a load balanced configuration to provide high availability and increased capacity. This section describes the procedure for migrating from a single reverse proxy and consolidated Edge Server to a load balanced reverse proxy array and consolidated Edge Server array.

In This Section

This section contains the following topics:

• Walkthrough: Plan for Scaling Edge Servers
• Walkthrough: Supported Topologies for Load Balanced Edge Servers
• Walkthrough: Enabling Load Balancer Routing (Two-Armed Only)
• Walkthrough: Configuring New Edge Servers
• Walkthrough: Validating New Edge Servers
• Walkthrough: Installing and Configuring Load Balancers for Edge Servers
• Walkthrough: Validating Load Balancers for Edge Servers
• Walkthrough: Decommissioning Non-Load Balanced Edge Servers