Using Vault in a load balanced environment

rifferte · Post by **rifferte** » Tue May 04, 2004 10:59 am

Does anyone have experience installing Vault in a load balanced environment?

Here is our setup: We have two load balanced web servers, with one DB server.

The only thing I can think of to start is that the web.config would have to be updated to allow session state to be kept in a unified store (like having the aspnet session state service running on one of the servers and all servers use that).

Are there any other considerations?

dan · Post by **dan** » Thu May 06, 2004 10:02 am

Sorry this hasn't been answered - it slipped through the cracks...

Unfortunately, you can't currently have multiple IIS servers accessing the same Vault repository. The web service keeps a cache that contains the state of the tree, and changes from one IIS installation wouldn't be reflected in the other, and the cache would get out of sync, and would cause all sorts of problems.

rifferte · Post by **rifferte** » Fri May 07, 2004 10:37 am

Thanks for the reply - I am glad I didnt find this out the hardway!

Are there any plans to allow this type of use in the future?

dan · Post by **dan** » Fri May 07, 2004 12:44 pm

Eventually, yes, but this will require a lot of work, and we probably won't get to it for awhile.