Re: Clustering Active/Active IIS 6.0 on Win2K3

Agreed, you should definitely use NLB for load-balancing IIS vs. MSCS...just
more appropriate

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Ryan Sokolowski
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"Russ Kaufmann" <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Sharad Rai" <SharadRai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hi,
>> Can IIS 6.0 be clusterd in active/active mode and load balanced at the
>> same
>> time? Any useful links would be much appreciated.
>>
>> I have two servers with one SCSI enclosure disk sub system.
>
> The best way to handle load balancing for IIS is to use NLB.
>
> Now, if you just have to use MSCS for reasons taht are beyond me, then you
> can do an active/active thing with IIS 6.0 using
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/ServerHelp/5d39b359-a911-4813-b41b-04604699159b.mspx
>
> That will get you the clustering part. If you also must have load
> balancing with it, then you will need to use a separate load balancing
> hardware device or use plain old DNS round robining.
>
> MSCS and NLB can not be used on the same set of servers.
>


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