Re: IIS 6.0 Clustering vs. NLB

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Russ,

How to explain myself properly so you can understand which the requirments 
were?
MSCS was out of discussion. It was a MUST because they were clustering File 
Server, Print Servers, SQL, etc...

But, besides that service, they wanted/required every single host in the 
enterprise hold a FTP server were to put some information about 2 host jobs 
(Job Scheduling & Backup).

This information was gathered from a cental mainframe.

The customer had been doing that for years in their environment (Mainframes, 
UNix and OS/2 Lan Server) with more than 7000 servers...and the topic of FTP 
in the hosts was out of discussion....If Microsoft wanted to introduce their 
technology there (replacing OS/2) they/we should do wht they require.

Ramon

"Russ Kaufmann [MVP]" <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> "Ramon Jiménez [MVP]" <rjimenezm_en hotmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>> So, the main usage of Windows Clusters were not to provide FTP, buit they 
>> NEEDED the FTP beeing clusterized because for each Virtual Server they 
>> wanted to have the data in the FTP site of that server.
>
> So, they could have used NLB (which is much cheaper), and then used the 
> Home Directory tab to point all of the different FTP servers to a 
> directory located on another computer (a good high-end file server or 
> replicated DFS tree) so that each and every FTP server would see the same 
> files without the high costs of MSCS.
>
> NLB is a great solution.
>
>> The project was done in Windows 2000 (early 2000) and the migration to 
>> Windows 2003 required the usage of Generic Script. Period.
>>
>> Folks, be open-minded...sometimes there are reasons behind some 
>> decisions.
>
> and sometimes there are better solutions... :)
>
>
> -- 
> Russ Kaufmann
>
> MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
> http://www.clusterhelp.com - Cluster Website
> http://msmvps.com/clusterhelp - Blog
> 


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