OCS 2007 R2 and ACE

[Pascal Blumenthal]

Hello People

We have a little problem with our ACE configuration.

The Goal is that the ACE works as Load balancer for our future Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 infrastructure.

Actually, we're trying to configure the ACE, but without any success.

I'm not sure if it's better to work in "one armed mode* or with the routing mode.

I have attached our config and I hope that somebody can help me. Any suggestion is welcome.

Thank you

Regards,

Pascal

[Alex Rickard]

Pascal,

From the config you provided, you are doing one arm load balancing. In order to get this to work, you will need to perform NAT to make sure the traffic comes back through the ACE. Try setting up a NAT pool on interface VLAN 1000 and reference that nat pool in your multi-match policy int1000.

policy-map multi-match int1000
  class chzhbclu01.ch.kworld.kpmg.com

  nat dynamic 1 vlan 1000

interface vlan 1000

nat-pool 1 X.X.X.X Y.Y.Y.Y netmask Z.Z.Z.Z pat

Here is the link for the configuration guide that details NAT:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/ace_appliances/vA4_1_0/configuration/security/guide/nat.html