Re: NLB cluster using blade servers

Hello Ryan,

The blades both show up as having two NICs each, but then the entire
chassis only has connections to the two Cisco switches on either side.
I suppose at the moment they effectively do have dedicated NICs as
there's only the two servers in the chassis, but technically no, the
NICs will be shared.

THanks,

TK.

Ryan Sokolowski [MVP] wrote:
Do the individual blades have dedicated NICs or are they leveraging a shared
NIC solution (i.e. - a set of NICs abstracted / shared amongst the
individual blades)?

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"tommyk" <tom.kivlin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

I am trying to set up a load balanced cluster of servers, and one of
them is an HP Blade server, the other isn't. When I create the cluster,
I can add the Hosts fine, but the blade server never converges, and
once the NLB is configured (all through the Windows interface), it
seems to change it's IP address as normal (to the cluster IP), and I
can no longer connect to it even with it's normal IP address, whereas I
can with the other host (and all other hosts in clusters I have set
up).

Is there a problem with setting up load balanced clusters with blade
servers, and if so is there a solution?

For info I am not using the Teaming available with the HP server, and
the other server works fine and when I enter the cluster address in IE,
it picks up that server only.

I've played around with the MaskSourceMAC setting (i.e. tried it when
set to 0 and 1) and also added the UnicastInterHostCommSupport registry
setting to the blade server.

Please help, as this is driving me nuts!

Thanks in advance...


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