ACE Loadbalancing Microsoft's "Lync 2010"

[brian_nc]

Greetings. My Enterprise/Email team is looking to implement Microsoft's Lync 2010 series of products. They provided a link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/gg269419 that indicates the ACE has yet to be tested by Cisco to use with this product. We currently have two 4710's in a failover deployement. Can anyone confirm that Lync 2010 will work with ACE's, or point me in a direction that I could use to provide the Enterprise team documentation on ACE LB'ing of the Lync platform? My searches have turned up very little.

Thanks,

-b

[mwinnett]

Brian,

To get a definite answer you will probably need to talk to your local Cisco account manager. However, I checked our old cases database and there are customer running lync through the ace. The only consistent issue appears to be a requirement to configure "loadbalance vip udp-fast-age" due to the way that Lync returns the server IP address in a UDP reply.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/interfaces_modules/services_modules/ace/vA4_2_0/command/reference/policy.html#wp1393857

Most other issues are basic config (not Lync related).

Matthew