We are using excelservice.asmx in c# code that calls a excel file passes in the data and then gets the calculated output from there,
everything works fine in "single server" test environment, the test environment has Share Point 2013 WFE , Share Point 2013 App Services and Share Point database (SQL 2012)hosted in a single server.
We are planning to move to a production environment which has below configuration.
1. 2 Servers for Sharepoint 2013 WFE and load balanced through F5 Load Balancer with sticky session enabled
2. 2 Server for Sharepoint 2013 Appserver, with load balancing handled by sharepoint.
3. SQL 2012 - Std. edition
Below are my questions ..
1. Where does the excelservice.asmx run ? is it on WFE or the App Servers ?
2. If it runs on share point app servers then how load balancing is handled ? my understanding is that share point offers load balancing by itself as per https://blogs.office.com/2008/12/12/understanding-excel-services-load-balancing-options/.
3. What are the load balancing options I need to choose if I want sticky session enabled. ref to : https://blogs.office.com/2008/12/12/understanding-excel-services-load-balancing-options/
Raghu