Re: how to balance network traffic across multiple NIC's

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From: Alex Zhang (v-qiz_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:52:25 GMT

Hello David,

Thank you for your reply.

It is a complex work to find the bottleneck in a intranet. The bottleneck
could be all kinds of devices in your intranet, such as switch, cable,
server etc. You could use Performance Monitoring Utility to monitor the
performance.

For more information you may browse the following web site:

Overview of Performance Monitoring
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/2000/server/reskit/
en-us/serverop/part2/sopch05.mspx
 

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to let me
know. I am happy to be of assistance.
Thanks and regards,
Alex Zhang
Microsoft Partner Online Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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| Hello Alex,
|
| Thank you for your reply. I always learn something when posting to this
| site, thanks much.
|
| I have a request for advice: You state that based on your experience the
NIC
| should not be the bottleneck in the system. Given the following scenario
| what would you recommend?
|
| 120 Engineers working with large modeling and CADD files.
| One File server with a large raid array.
| The engineers will access the server at the same time upon arrival in the
| morning and upon departure in the evening.
|
| It is my asumption that performance would take a significant hit at these
| peak usage times and that this could be attributed to all this data trying
| to traverse the NIC within the same time period. If this assumption is
false
| then great! I have nothing to worry about.
|
| Thanks,
| David
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| "Alex Zhang(MSFT)" <v-qiz@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| news:gA9o5SfJEHA.2112@cpmsftngxa10.phx.gbl...
| > Hello David,
| >
| > Thank you for posting here.
| >
| > Load balancing is not possible on a single server. Also, it is not
| > recommended to connect multiple NICs on one computer to one physical
| > network subnet.
| >
| > Based on my experience, the NIC should not be the bottle neck in your
| > system.
| >
| > For more information you may browse the following web sites:
| >
| > How to Configure WLBS Using Multiple Network Interface Cards
| > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197991
| >
| > Windows NT Load Balancing Service Technical Overview
| >
|
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/productinfo/enterprise/wlbs.asp?bPrint=Tru
| > e
| >
| > In addition, I'd like let you know another technology: Network Adapter
| > Teaming.
| >
| > There are network adapters and accompanying drivers available from some
| > hardware manufacturers to provide fault tolerance. This technology
allows
| > you to group network adapter ports for a connection to a single physical
| > segment. If connectivity through one port is not working, another port
is
| > activated automatically. This operation is transparent to the operating
| > system and other devices on the network.
| >
| > Support for the fault-tolerant technology (the hardware and the drivers)
| is
| > provided by the hardware manufacturer.
| > Some related information:
| >
| > Network Adapter Teaming and Server Clustering
| > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;254101
| >
| > INFO: Using NIC Teaming Adapters with Network Load Balancing May Cause
| > Network Problems
| > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;278431
| >
| > I hope this information proves helpful to you.
| > If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to let me
| > know. I am happy to be of assistance.
| >
| > Thanks and regards,
| > Alex Zhang
| > Microsoft Partner Online Support
| > Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
| >
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| > | From: "David H" <dhigginbotham@hazenandsawyer.com>
| > | Subject: how to balance network traffic across multiple NIC's
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| > | I have a Windows 2003 server with three NIC's in it. Is it possible to
| do
| > | load balancing to this one server across these three NIC's? If so
how? I
| > no
| > | I can use the the Network Load Balancing service to create a cluster
of
| > more
| > | than one computer but can I balance traffic to this one box with
| mulitple
| > | NIC"S
| > |
| > | Thanks,
| > | David
| > |
| > |
| > |
| >
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