Re: Sharepoint Searching and Indexing on Load Balanced Environment

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From: Bill English [MVP] (benglish_at_networknowledge.com)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 20:50:48 -0500

You can't have two WFE servers without moving the Index/Job functions to a
third server. The topology you propose is not supported in SPS03. 

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"T. Nguyen" <webdude737@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> We will have a two Sharepoint web servers, hardware load balanced.
> The SQL Server is on a different box.
> Both of these web servers will have Sharepoint 2003 and search/index
> servers on them.
>
> Question 1: How will this work?  When an admin goes to configure
> searching and indexing, the load balancer may direct them to
> Sharepoint Server 1 or to Sharepoint Server 2.  Will the configuration
> be stored in Server 1 or in Server 2?
>
> I assume that all the indexing information (including the index
> database (sps.edb?)) is stored in ..\program files\Sharepoint Portal
> Server\DATA\...
>
> Suppose we have a synchronization software installed, such as Double
> Take, which will synchronize the physical files between the two load
> balanced servers.
>
> Question 2:  On failover (one server dies), if the contents under
> \DATA\ are sync'd up, will the indexing and all the rules associated
> with it still occur?
>
> Thanks in advance.

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