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It's been a while since the last article on Kemp and Exchange, so here's an updated version. For this test, I used a Kemp Loadmaster VLM-5000 (which is available for free with people with MCP ID for the HomeLab) and Exchange 2019. The Loadmaster firmware used is 7.2.48. The Loadmaster ... Read more
The third part of the Exchange 2016 Loadbalancing series is about Exchange 2016 in conjunction with the Kemp LoadMaster 7.1 (more precisely 7.1-30-75). The two previous parts deal with F5 BigIP LTM and can be found here: Exchange 2016: Loadbalancing with F5 BigIP LTM 11.6 (iApp) Part 1 Exchange 2016: Loadbalancing with F5 BigIP LTM 11.6 (iApp) ... Read more
In the last part of this series of articles, we test the configured HA environment. The environment has not yet been optimized, but the results are quite impressive. Here you can see that Outlook 2013 no longer connects to the Exchange Server FQDN, but to a value consisting of "Mailbox GUID + @ + UPN Suffix" In the ... Read more
In parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series of articles, we have already installed the Exchange servers, configured the load balancers for HA and created a DAG. Now the Exchange configuration for load balancing and the actual load balancer configuration are still missing to make the Exchange CAS role highly available. We will take care of this in this article. So let's take care of ... Read more
Before we set up the DAG, we quickly configure the environment by first logging in to the ECP (https://exchangeserver/ecp) Under Message flow we add a new Accepted domain, in this example it is frankysweb.de Then we create a new send connector And now an e-mail address policy Now we can configure the DAG. ... Read more
The Exchange servers have already been installed in part 1, in this part the Kemp load balancers are configured for HA operation. First, the default IP is changed to an address for the test network And then the default gateway: And the DNS servers I select "LB1" as the host name so that the devices can be identified more easily Then ... Read more
It's almost like Christmas: 2 new HP servers and 2 Kemp load balancers arrived today. The systems are actually intended for an Exchange 2010 cluster, but since there is still a little time left, it makes sense to test Exchange 2013 high availability with the systems. The following hardware is available for the test ... Read more
