Is there anywhere Vmware mentioning that SSO can be loadbalanced using a hardware load balancer?
We are looking to provide SSO load balancing using F5. Below is the KB provided to me my VMware support engineer. I'm escalating the case to level1 as the answer I got is not 100%. Will provide more details.
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2033588
Are there anyone every successful in setting up SSO HA using a hardware loadbalancer? For me it looks like software load balancer is the only supported method as mentioned in above KB.
Experts/Moderators/Bloggers, Please help us out here.
yeah it sure can be load balanced using any load balancer you like, VMware refer to the built in load balancing of apache but there is no reason this cant be performed by an F5. Just need someone the the expertise on f5s to set it up.
The trick is this has to be done at the time of install, you can not load balance after SSO has been installed and vCenters or other services referencing it. as you have to change the ip to the NLB VIP which has to be done before you go attaching vCenters to it.
in my experience, im running a multi site and did look at using NLB but its really very easy to change which SSO server vCenter and inventory service points to. so worst case takes 2 minutes to install a new instance of SSO and another 2 minutes re pointing vCenter etc. decided it wasn't worth the time setting it up as the outage in case of a failure would be very minimal.
Cheers