Fortigate Load Balancing
KB ID 0001762 Problem I’ve been getting through my NSE4, and one of todays topics was NAT, just as an offhand comment the ‘narrator’ (I say narrator because it’s a monotonous robot AI voice,) mentioned Fortigate Load Balancing. In the past (with my Cisco hat on) when I’ve been asked about load balancing, I’ve said ‘If you want to load balance, buy a load balancer’. But the Fortigate does...
F5: Setup Basic Web Load Balancing
KB ID 0001698 Problem In past articles I’ve got my F5 BIG IP appliance up and running, and I’ve built some web servers to test load balancing. Now to actually connect things together and start testing things. Below is my lab setup, I will be deploying simple web load balancing (Static: Round Robin) between three web servers, each serving a simple HTTP web site. Test F5 to Web Server Connectivity For obvious reasons the F5...
VMware: Change IOPS Limit From 1000 to 1
KB ID 0001532 Problem I got asked to do this by a client this week, HP has requested that this be set for connections to their Storevirtual VSA that had been having some problems. Solution I followed the instructions and was at first confused because I could not see the settings that needed changing? That’s because this only applies if you have MULTIPATHING enabled and set to ‘Round Robin’. So if your storage does...
Remote Desktop Services: Balancing Sessions Hosts and Connection Brokers
KB ID 0001424 Problem I got an email from a colleague who was setting up an RDS farm, (2012 R2). He was having some problems and asked me; “If the Connection Broker brokers the connections to the Session Hosts, how do I RDP to the Session Broker?” This threw me completely, I usually jump on the console in VMware or use a third party remote management tool, I don’t tend to to RDP onto servers. I had fallen into the...
Windows Server: Connecting to iSCSI Storage Using MPIO
KB ID 0001392 Problem In my scenario my Windows Server is a VMware virtual machine. To enable MPIO (Multipath I/O) I’m going to need two network cards, connected to the two iSCSI networks. Above I’ve shown both iSCSI networks in different colours 192.168.51.0/24 and 192.168.50.0/24 in production I would also have these in their own VLANs, (or even separate physical networks). This article is not about setting up your...