Refer to the following sections for details about the purpose of this document and prerequisites that should be met before proceeding.

Document Purpose

This documentation is intended to provide guidance on how to configure a single pair of LoadMaster products to provide high availability for a Microsoft Lync Server 2013 environment. This documentation is created using a representative sample environment described later in the document. As this documentation is not intended to cover every possible deployment scenario it may not address unique setup or requirements. The Progress Kemp Support Team is available to provide solutions for scenarios not explicitly defined.

Prerequisites

It is assumed that the reader is a network administrator or a person otherwise familiar with networking and general computer terminology. It is further assumed that the Microsoft Lync Server 2013 environment has been set up and the LoadMaster has been installed.

Other LoadMaster documentation can be referred to as needed from the LoadMaster documentation page.

The minimum requirements that should be met before proceeding are as follows:

  • LoadMaster firmware version 7.0-6 or above should be installed
  • Configured and published Microsoft Lync Server architecture with Lync Topology builder
  • Installed the Microsoft Servers, Active Directories and followed other Microsoft requirements
  • Configured internal and external DNS entries for Front-End, Director and Edge pools
  • Established access to the LoadMaster Web User Interface (WUI)