JBoss Clustering with Microsoft Network Load Balancing

Jboss configuration
Changes in jboss-service.xml
C:\Server\jboss-4.2.2\server\all\deploy\jboss-web-cluster.sar\META-INF\jboss-service.xml
1) delete <Config> <UDP> .... </Config>
2) paste the following code to the same area of deleted code.
The initial_hosts highlighted bellow is to specify other server's IP.
3) Sample jboss-service.xml is located in “NLB Manager PrintScreen & Config File” folder

<config>
<TCP start_port="7810" loopback="true" bind_addr="${bind.address}"
tcp_nodelay="true"
recv_buf_size="20000000"
send_buf_size="640000"
discard_incompatible_packets="true"
enable_bundling="false"
max_bundle_size="64000"
max_bundle_timeout="30"
use_incoming_packet_handler="true"
use_outgoing_packet_handler="false"
down_thread="false" up_thread="false"
use_send_queues="false"
sock_conn_timeout="300"
skip_suspected_members="true"/>
<TCPPING initial_hosts="192.168.0.7[7810]" port_range="3"
timeout="3000"
down_thread="false" up_thread="false"
num_initial_members="3"/>
<MERGE2 max_interval="100000"
down_thread="false" up_thread="false" min_interval="20000"/>
<FD_SOCK down_thread="false" up_thread="false"/>
<FD timeout="10000" max_tries="5" down_thread="false" up_thread="false" shun="true"/>
<VERIFY_SUSPECT timeout="1500" down_thread="false" up_thread="false"/>
<pbcast.NAKACK max_xmit_size="60000"
use_mcast_xmit="false" gc_lag="0"
retransmit_timeout="300,600,1200,2400,4800"
down_thread="false" up_thread="false"
discard_delivered_msgs="true"/>
<pbcast.STABLE stability_delay="1000" desired_avg_gossip="50000"
down_thread="false" up_thread="false"
max_bytes="400000"/>
<pbcast.GMS print_local_addr="true" join_timeout="3000"
down_thread="false" up_thread="false"
join_retry_timeout="2000" shun="true"
view_bundling="true"/>
<FC max_credits="2000000" down_thread="false" up_thread="false"
min_threshold="0.10"/>
<FRAG2 frag_size="60000" down_thread="false" up_thread="false"/>
<pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER down_thread="false" up_thread="false" use_flush="false"/>
</config>

4) change REPL_ASYNC to REPL_SYNC
<attribute name="CacheMode">REPL_SYNC</attribute>

Changes in cluster-service.xml
C:\Server\jboss-4.2.3.GA\server\all\deploy\cluster-service.xml
1) delete <Config> <UDP> .... </Config>
2) paste the following code to the same area of deleted code.
The initial_hosts highlighted bellow is to specify other server's IP.

<Config>
<TCP start_port="7800" loopback="true" bind_addr="${bind.address}"
tcp_nodelay="true"
recv_buf_size="20000000"
send_buf_size="640000"
discard_incompatible_packets="true"
enable_bundling="false"
max_bundle_size="64000"
max_bundle_timeout="30"
use_incoming_packet_handler="true"
use_outgoing_packet_handler="false"
down_thread="false" up_thread="false"
use_send_queues="false"
sock_conn_timeout="300"
skip_suspected_members="true"/>
<TCPPING initial_hosts="192.168.0.7[7800]" port_range="3"
timeout="3000"
down_thread="false" up_thread="false"
num_initial_members="3"/>
<MERGE2 max_interval="100000"
down_thread="false" up_thread="false" min_interval="20000"/>
<FD_SOCK down_thread="false" up_thread="false"/>
<FD timeout="10000" max_tries="5" down_thread="false" up_thread="false" shun="true"/>
<VERIFY_SUSPECT timeout="1500" down_thread="false" up_thread="false"/>
<pbcast.NAKACK max_xmit_size="60000"
use_mcast_xmit="false" gc_lag="0"
retransmit_timeout="300,600,1200,2400,4800"
down_thread="false" up_thread="false"
discard_delivered_msgs="true"/>
<pbcast.STABLE stability_delay="1000" desired_avg_gossip="50000"
down_thread="false" up_thread="false"
max_bytes="400000"/>
<pbcast.GMS print_local_addr="true" join_timeout="3000"
down_thread="false" up_thread="false"
join_retry_timeout="2000" shun="true"
view_bundling="true"/>
<pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER down_thread="false" up_thread="false" use_flush="false"/>
</Config>

</attribute>
<depends>jboss:service=Naming</depends>
</mbean>

3) replace the HAJNDI portion with following code. Highlighted word is the only changes.

<mbean code="org.jboss.ha.jndi.HANamingService"
name="jboss:service=HAJNDI">
<!-- We now inject the partition into the HAJNDI service instead
of requiring that the partition name be passed -->
<depends optional-attribute-name="ClusterPartition"
proxy-type="attribute">jboss:service=${jboss.partition.name:DefaultPartition}</depends>
<!-- Bind address of bootstrap and HA-JNDI RMI endpoints -->
<attribute name="BindAddress">${bind.address}</attribute>
<!-- Port on which the HA-JNDI stub is made available -->
<attribute name="Port">1100</attribute>
<!-- RmiPort to be used by the HA-JNDI service once bound. 0 => auto. -->
<attribute name="RmiPort">1101</attribute>
<!-- Accept backlog of the bootstrap socket -->
<attribute name="Backlog">50</attribute>
<!-- The thread pool service used to control the bootstrap and
auto discovery lookups -->
<depends optional-attribute-name="LookupPool"
proxy-type="attribute">jboss.system:service=ThreadPool</depends>

<!-- A flag to disable the auto discovery via multicast -->
<attribute name="DiscoveryDisabled">false</attribute>
<!-- Set the auto-discovery bootstrap multicast bind address. If not
specified and a BindAddress is specified, the BindAddress will be used. -->
<attribute name="AutoDiscoveryBindAddress">${bind.address}</attribute>
<!-- Multicast Address and group port used for auto-discovery -->
<attribute name="AutoDiscoveryAddress">${jboss.partition.udpGroup:230.0.0.4}</attribute>
<attribute name="AutoDiscoveryGroup">1102</attribute>
<!-- The TTL (time-to-live) for autodiscovery IP multicast packets -->
<attribute name="AutoDiscoveryTTL">16</attribute>
<!-- The load balancing policy for HA-JNDI -->
<attribute name="LoadBalancePolicy">org.jboss.ha.framework.interfaces.RoundRobin</attribute>

<!-- Client socket factory to be used for client-server
RMI invocations during JNDI queries
<attribute name="ClientSocketFactory">custom</attribute>
-->
<!-- Server socket factory to be used for client-server
RMI invocations during JNDI queries
<attribute name="ServerSocketFactory">custom</attribute>
-->
</mbean>

4) Sample cluster-service.xml is located in “NLB Manager PrintScreen & Config File” folder

Start your Jboss with the following command line.
Located in NLB Manager PrintScreen & Config File/runCluster.bat.
Modify the highlighted IP. 192.168.0.225 is virtual IP and 192.168.0.7 is local IP.
run -Dignore.bind.address=true -b 192.168.0.225 -Dbind.address=192.168.0.7 -c all