Load balancing View notification Service

[Ludo]

Hi,

I'm currently planning an upgrade from our MS-EPM 2002 solution to MS-EPM
2003 SP1. In a recent Webcast, it was said that since Project Server 2003
SP1, it is possible to do some load balancing for the View Notification
service. i would like to find some additional information about how to
configure MS-EPM to have the View notification service running on 2 servers
but unfortunatelly, I cannot find any on the topic. Can anyone help?

many Thanks,

Ludovic Dandois
IMIS-PM Business Administrator
NATO-NC3A

 

[Skip Purdy]

This is well documented in the Configuration Planning guide, which is found at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...B8-F99B-4E4E-95A5-68F1658AC78A&displaylang=en

 

[Ludo]

Thanks Skip,

But actually, I've already read this document and it explains what is
possible and that's good. But what I would like to do is:

First: Offload the View notification service - Well explained in the
configuration planning guide and installation guide.

Second: Do some load balancing on the view notification service so, instead
of having 1 server processing the views, installing 2 servers, each of them
having a VIEWDROP folder and both can be used at the same time depending of
what is published.
The typical example is if projects are published while the OLAP cube is
processing, the processing of OLAP is done using a View notification service
server #1 and the processing of the projects can continue on server #2.

Is that kind of configuration possible or do I dream?
If yes is there something special to do with Project server (registry
modification,...) or is it only the use of Windows Server 2003 NLB service?

Thanks for th help...