Re: Microsoft Clustering and NLB

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From: Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] (rod_at_die.spam.die.nw-america.com)
Date: 06/25/04


Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:51:59 -0500

Web Server, Standard, and Enterprise (and DataCenter/SBS but who would ever
use them for NLB) all have NLB in them with Server 2003. NLB will load
balancing and failover support.

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering

"Chip" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:20d7701c45a5e$111ee6c0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Dear Group,
>
> We are designing for a web farm. In that process my boss
> asked me to find a solution to share incoming web traffic
> to two Identical servers(Load Sharing) and also if one
> server fails the traffic should be moved to other server
> (redundancy)
>
> So does NLB include Load balancing as well as Failover
> support in Windows 2003 Standard Edition?
>
> or
> I need to go for Windows 2003 Enterprise then configure
> clustering as well as NLB.
>
> Also the client does have some servers in place, which are
> not scalable for this project. Are there any Caeching
> devices which will share the burden of those servers and
> improve the access ? The pages to be run are Dynamic
> content in ASP and ASP.NET.
>
> Help Appreciated!
>
> Regards
>
> Chip



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