Load balance/High availability for SSRS

  • Hi,

    I'm installing SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting services.

    Is Load balancing is possible for SSRS?

    What technology we need to use to provide High availability for SSRS?

    Thanks

  • if you have enterprise edition you can do a scale out deployment where you have multiple hosts acting as SSRS front ends which will give load balancing and HA if a node dies the other nodes carry on.

    last time I checked SSRS wasnt cluster aware so needed to be configured on each node in a cluster if you used SSRS in a clustered environment

  • SSRS is not cluster aware under MSCS, although you could look at Veritas Cluster Server to achieve high availability here.

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  • Link to walkthru on an SSRS scale out

    http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2335/scale-out-sql-server-2008-r2-reporting-services-farm-using-nlb-part-1/

    The only thing I would add is make sure you have console access to the report server when configuring MS NLB as you may lose connectivity via RDP.

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