RE: Performance hit

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From: Matthew Harris [MVP] (harris_at_crocker.ucdavis.edu)
Date: 12/10/04


Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:41:02 -0800

Do you see the same performance hit if people connect to the terminal server
cluster via the ip address of the terminal server, rather than the cluster's
ip address?

Can you also describe some of the network configurations that occurred when
you enabled NLB?

-M

"boguhn@entelos.com" wrote:

> Hello,
> I recently created a NLB cluster with two terminal servers and the
> Microsoft document 'Session Directory and Load Balancing Using Terminal
> Server' with two Windows Server 2003 Enterprise systems. The systems
> were configured in unicast mode, and NICs were not teamed.
>
> These two systems existed as stand-alones before being added to the
> cluster, and before being added to the cluster my users were able to
> perform their work in a minute or less. After the systems were put
> into the cluster, time to perform work visibly rose to 5 minutes and
> beyond (my clients run a custom software program that performs
> experiments and writes them to an Oracle database). As a test, we took
> another stand-alone system, tested performance on it and found it to be
> fine, and then added it to the cluster. As with the other two systems,
> this one also took a major performance hit.
>
> My question is: why? Making a cluster in NLB is pretty
> straightforward, and going through the properties I don't see anything
> that I can do to tune this. Does anyone have any insight as to why I'm
> seeing such a hit, and if anything at all can be done to boost
> performance?
>
> Thanks.
>
>



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