I'm close to deploying a PAS REST Service and need to have redundant servers. This is not a need of volume but a need based on availability (i.e. one goes offline for security patches). I don't really need clustering and the application doesn't require session management between request. Corporate IT wants to utilize f5 to load balance between two instances of PAS. Is there a better approach? Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Hi Rob,
In my opinion, If you do not want to have any downtime and always keep your services running then configuring two PASOE Instances with a load balancer seem to be a right approach. In this case, the load balancer should not send requests to the PASOE Instance if it is down, so ideally it has to do some health checks and make sure that the instance is running. F5 seems to have those capabilities and I think it would fit the requirement.
Hi Rob,
In my opinion, If you do not want to have any downtime and always keep your services running then configuring two PASOE Instances with a load balancer seem to be a right approach. In this case, the load balancer should not send requests to the PASOE Instance if it is down, so ideally it has to do some health checks and make sure that the instance is running. F5 seems to have those capabilities and I think it would fit the requirement.