Having recovered from the recent Heartbleed vulnerabilities we now have another headline grabbing vulnerability to keep us all busy. First let me say that our product should be perfectly safe and secure unless you’ve already shared your passwords or forgotten to run “lbsecure”
Enhanced Microsoft IIS health checks using VBscript
By default, the load balancer uses a TCP connect to the port defined in the Virtual Service to verify the health of the real (backend) servers. For IIS this would typically be port 80. In many cases this kind of health check is adequate but for IIS this if often not the case.
Windows NLB (WNLB) and its disadvantages
Whilst Windows Network Load Balancing (WNLB) has been constantly improved in each version of Windows since it’s introduction in Windows 2000, it still has a fairly extensive list of disadvantages when compared to a hardware or virtual based loadbalancer.
Valentine’s Special: SAM and VMan Have Upgraded Their Relationship Status – SolarWinds Lab #11
To learn more, click here: http://bit.ly/SW_Lab_Ep11 SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) and SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMan) have always h…
Improving End-User Satisfaction with Help Desk Management Tools
For more information: http://bit.ly/Help_Desk_Management SolarWinds Help Desk management products can help your IT team reduce time-to-resolution on service …
Load balancing UDP on EC2
I had been tasked with finding a way to load balance UDP on AWS. Normally we would use ipvsadm in at layer 4 DR but because of the limitations in ec2 this is not possible so another method was needed
Virtual Storage Console for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
“VSC for RHEV” is currently under heavy development.. we hope to have a public beta by end of Summer 2013..
DameWare em português em Ação
Quer ver o primeiro produto da SolarWinds em português em ação? Veja como o DameWare se conecta a máquinas Windows, Mac e Linux, ao vivo.
What do you mean my pipe is saturated?
Some of the most common questions we get at Loadbalancer.org are performance related.
HAProxy Alerts (for V7 Loadbalancer.org Appliance)
In this Blog I show a very simple solution to get Layer 7 (HAProxy) alerts configured using Logwatch. First from the WUI : 1.