Setting Up Network Load Balancing for BPC

These are some loose notes from setting up load balancing in a BPC 7.5 MS environment.

1. Change Virtual Server Name to the load balancing appliance on all application/web servers
2. Set COM+ Object Application Pooling Pool Size to 5 for Everest Update, OSoftSystemConfig, K2Processing and OSoftDataService
   1. Component Services > COM+ Applications
   2. Right click the application
   3. Properties > Pooling & Recycling
   4. Set pool size to 5
3. On each app server, edit the hosts file and add the virtual DNS name with the loopback address. This way when the server resolves the virtual name as part as internal processing, it resolves to itself and not another node.
4. Disable the loop-back adaptor. That is done in the registry. There is a MS KB article that describes the steps.
5. Stickiness is necessary for the admin client.
6. Change required to the web.config file of the Osoft website on each machine in order to ensure that the encryption keys are all the same.
7. Change web.config file for Management Console
8. Restart SendGovernor
9. Modify hosts file, make entry for physical app server name on each app server