Batch server load balancing

PatrickT

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We have got 10 batch servers (it is a citrix platform, the bsfns are running upon the TS servers), one batch server and one environment per site ; we have got 10 sites. It's an unique platform : there is only one deployment server and one SQL server for all these machines.
Does anybody know some techniques to do load balancing with the 10 batch servers ?
Thank you.
 
Wow, 10 remote servers!

There's no load balancing for the batch servers.

Anyway, even if this were possible, how would the users find their jobs afterwards? In my experience, for most users it is too confusing to figure out which server their job went to with just 2 servers.

And would it make any sense for a user from site "A" to run their jobs on a batch server at site "B"?

Possibly, you could randomly assign servers to ube's / users via OCM - not quite "load balancing", but sharing of some sort.

Regards,
Alexander Pastuhov
http://www.pastuhov.com.au/index.htm
 
I am attaching a Document from PSFT's about how to accomplish load balancing. There are a couple problems with PSFT's methodology.

1. Their use of triggers is unsafe and can cause intermittent 'Insert' 'Update' and 'Delete' failures in high load environments. A better solution is to quickly modify the P986116 to replace the 'Server Name' field with a wildcard whenever the Load Balance datasource is selected.
2. Be absolutely confident which UBE's you run through the load balanced servers. It is very easy to get into mutli-threaded issues.
 

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