Networking: Traffic Manager

How can we improve Windows Azure Networking: Traffic Manager?

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  1. Enabled configurable session affinity at the load balancer.

    I would like each request from a user to go to the same web role instance. The motivation is performance of cached data.

    Configuration based to IP address, form data, and query string data would be useful. I believe this can be configured at the load balancer.

    In my case, this is a Facebook app, so affinity based on the fb_sig_user parameter in the POST data would send the same Facebook user to the same VM instance.

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    • Provide Load Balancing for Intra-Role communications

      The fabirc should provide the ability to have load-balanced intra-role communication (i.e. internal cloud VIP's), so instead of asking the RoleEnvironment for the instance IPEndpoint list and choosing manually, there should be a mechanism for simply saying call this other role, and let the fabric decide (based on perf/count/round robin, etc...) to what instance of the role to send the call.

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      • Allow long-polling by making the NLB timeout configurable, not hard-coded to 60 seconds.

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        • Add more configurability to Traffic Manager monitoring endpoint

          I would like for the monitoring endpoint configuration to support two new options:

          1) How many consecutive times TrafficMgr does not get an http 200 from the endpoint before it deems it down. I have a scenario where I want it to be deemed down immediately after one failure for a quicker failover.
          2) How many consecutive times TrafficMgr receives an http 200 after it has deemed it down before it will deem it up again. I have seen a scenario where table storage (or SQL Azure) is inconsistent (fails one query then succeeds the next, back and forth) and…

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            planned  ·  Rodrigo De CastroRodrigo De Castro responded

            Thanks for your feature request.

            Making monitoring more configurable is planned for Windows Azure Traffic Manager. However, we still do not have an estimate on when these features will be available. We will update this idea when we have more information.

          • Support Azure Web Sites

            At the moment only cloudapp.net Cloud Services are supported by Traffic Manager. Please add azurewebsites.net Web Sites to the list, too.

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