NServiceBus F5 load balancing Subscribers without using a distributor

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We are looking to use our F5's to load balance MSMQ messages without using a distributor (our windows boxes are not currently clustered).

Using DB subscription storage & publishing to a VIP, would 3 subscribers register with the publisher? (ie the VIP, & both subscribers?)

Using MSMQ transactional queues will 1 subscriber only process the message? As we only want to publish to the VIP would 1 server process the message & would the callback to the originating server succeed?

Thanks

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Each subscriber would get a copy of the message. Why not use the distribution mechanism? – Eben Roux
Main reasons taken from here stackoverflow.com/questions/3515136/… – Chris McKelt
Also I only want 1 of the subscribers to process the message - they will be identical machines – Chris McKelt
Ah, I see. So F5 is a product of some kind :) --- does it read a msmq queue and then balance it itself? If that is the case then you probably do not want to publish but rather send to the endpoint queue. Callbacks will need to be tested but I cannot see why it wouldn't work since the processing endpoint communicates with the receiver directly. – Eben Roux

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