Typical Setup Using Load-Balanced Ace Management Server Instances - VMware ACE EN-000042-00 Administrator's Manual

ACE Management Server Administrator's Manual
Typical Setup Using Load-Balanced ACE Management
Server Instances
A single ACE Management Server can handle a preset number of clients, but you can
add more servers to your ACE Management Server infrastructure by using load
balancing. When you add more servers to the load‐balancing group, the number of
clients that you can serve scales linearly. For example, if you can serve 2,000 clients with
one server, using two load‐balanced servers allows you to serve 4,000 clients.
Figure 5‐1 shows a simple deployment topology for using load balancing.
Figure 5-1. Two ACE Management Server Instances Working Together
AMS Client
HTTPS
AMS Client
HTTPS
AMS Client
HTTPS
To use a setup similar to the one depicted, you must have the following:
Two or more machines (or virtual machines) to host the ACE Management Server
processes
An external database to host the ACE Management Server data
A load balancing solution to manage traffic
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HTTPS
ACE ODBC
Management
Server 1
load
balancer
(optional)
HTTPS
ACE
Management
Server 2
Active Directory
domain controller
LDAP
Kerberos
LDAP
Kerberos
database
server
ODBC
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