Rob is a recognised authority on load balancer deployments for a range of applications. He helps to maintain the critical link between Sales, Support and Development through testing and documentation. He specializes in designing resilient solutions for critical Microsoft services (Exchange, RDS, Print Server), leveraging GSLB for multi-site active-active storage deployments (Splunk SmartStore), and ensuring client IP transparency using Proxy Protocol. He also loves playing bass guitar!
Splunk Enterprise enables you to search, analyze, and visualize the data gathered from the components of your IT infrastructure or business...
Hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world rely on Microsoft applications to deliver their fundamental IT services. However, these apps aren't always 100% dependable...
Using the flexibility of both AWS and our Enterprise AWS appliance, it's possible to configure a secure and robust load balanced Remote Desktop Services deployment to suit a range of requirements...
By default, the load balancer uses a TCP connect to the port defined in the Virtual Service to verify the health of each real (backend) server. For IIS, this would typically be port 80...
WNLB causes switch flooding and does not support multiple scheduling algorithms for distributing client load...
By default, the source IP address of the packet reaching the web servers is the IP address of the load balancer and not the IP address of the client...
Whilst the Heartbleed bug was relatively easy to exploit, the latest batch of bugs are not...
To ensure complete protection all SSL certificates that have been used with a vulnerable version of OpenSSL should be regenerated using a new private key...
Exchange 2013 is Microsoft's latest enterprise level messaging and collaboration server. It has been designed for simplicity of scale, hardware utilization, and failure isolation...
In Exchange 2010, system functionality is split into five server roles (Mailbox, Client Access (CAS), Unified Messaging, Hub Transport (HT) and Edge Transport). Mandatory roles are Mailbox, Client Access and Hub Transport...
Microsoft Print Server provides a great way to share printers throughout your organisation, but when the print server falls over, the phone quickly starts to ring...
There’s been a lot of debate here in the office about how best to capture both your Loadbalancer’s IP and the Source IP of the user in your access_log in Apache 2.4. This is the tried and tested method we've come up with...
