Re: Clustering and Load Balancing

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From: Chip (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 07:01:24 -0700

Hi vinnie.

Thanks for sharing your experience. So, you mean to say
that If I implement Microsoft NLB , I dont need to go for
failover-clustering? . I mean does NLB also does the
functionality of failover along with Load sharing?

Sincerely

Chip
>-----Original Message-----
>The answer depends on the type of load balancing you
implement.
>Microsoft's free NLB is well ..it's free and you get what
you pay for. It's
>not appliaction aware. You use the same IP for the IIS
but 1 for the VIP.
>F5's Big is my preferred method. It's not cheap but in a
large production,
>it's the way to go.
>Their MO is pretty much the same, it also depends on how
you set them up,
>i.e. round robin, Subnet, Infinity setting.
>But basically this is what happens- a browser goes to
the web server which
>has a DNS name using the VIP the Load Balancer will
direct clients back and
>forth between the load balanced servers, if for some
reason a server is
>broken the Load Balancer will send all traffic to the
good server. The 10
>mile high description.
>You don't need clustering, they are two different things.
>You can also implement 3DNS which uses the IP of client
to determine which
>geographic region to send client requests to.
>Vinnie
>
>
>"Chip" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:2070c01c458f7$aed927d0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> Dear Group,
>>
>> I realise that this question may be posted in Windows
>> Server newsgroup, but since there is a involvement of
IIS
>> i am giving a try here. How do clustering and Load
>> balancing work when implemented on a Web server? . If I
am
>> implementing Load Balancing mean the server need not be
>> clustured? Also What are the pros and cons of hosting
web
>> servers on Shared storage.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Chip
>
>
>.
>

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