Load balancing Konica Minolta Dispatcher Phoenix
About Konica Minolta Dispatcher Phoenix
Dispatcher Phoenix is Konica Minolta’s solution for helping businesses save time by automating document image processing, printing, and routing tasks via customisable workflows. It provides busy offices with the convenience and flexibility they need helping increase productivity.
Key benefits of load balancing
As print and document workflow specialists, Loadbalancer.org understands that these environments can be complex with multiple technologies and applications.
Load balancing Konica Minolta Dispatcher Phoenix creates systems that are:
- reliable and highly available
- scalable
- high-performing
Loadbalancer.org specializes in providing application delivery controllers (ADC) and load balancing solutions to the Print & Workflow Management sector. In addition to load balancing Phoenix, Loadbalancer.org also provides solutions for Konica Minolta’s Dispatcher Paragon product, see the Application page for further details.
How to load balance Konica Minolta Dispatcher Phoenix
The following diagram illustrates how the load balancer is deployed with multiple Dispatcher Phoenix servers.
For a Dispatcher Phoenix deployment, the preferred and default load balancer configuration uses Layer 4 DR Mode (Direct Routing, aka DSR / Direct Server Return). This is a very high performance solution that requires little change to your existing infrastructure. It is necessary to solve “the ARP problem” on the real print servers. This is a straightforward process, and is detailed in our deployment guide, below.
It is also possible to load balance a Dispatcher Phoenix deployment using Layer 7 SNAT Mode. This mode might be preferable if making changes to the real print servers is not possible, although some Windows Registry keys need to be added. Due to the increased amount of information at layer 7, performance is not as fast as at layer 4. Also note that load balanced connections at layer 7 are not source IP transparent, which is not usually an issue when load balancing print servers but should still be considered.
guides
Dispatcher Phoenix Deployment Guide
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Konica Minolta Dispatcher Paragon Deployment Guide
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Administration manual v8
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