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Network Load Balancing (NLB) is a component in Windows Server operating systems that load balances network traffic (sent to a cluster virtual IP address) among multiple servers in an NLB cluster.

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Exchange CAS Array using NLB

I have two CAS/HUB servers (CAS1 & CAS2) and two Mailbox servers (MBX1 & MBX2). All four servers live on ESXi 4.0 hosts. CAS1 and MBX1 are on ESXA and CAS2 and MBX2 on ESXB. I am using the Microsoft NLB for my CAS Array. I have configured the NLB…
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Moving from a single IIS to a webfarm using NLB with minimal downtime?

Say the IP of our website is 1.1.1.1, and we want to set up NLB, is it best to set 1.1.1.1 as the virtual IP - could mess this up and cause downtime... Better to set the virtual IP as 1.1.1.2, then once verified the NLB works, change the DNS to…
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Newbie question on Windows 2008 NLB in unicast mode

I am doing some experiments in NLB using Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. I have 2 windows machines, each with 2 nics. On each machine, only 1 NIC is used, the other one is not plugged into the network and is disabled at the operating system level.…
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Is it possible to configure Windows Server 2008 Network Load Balancer to balance load based on HTTP methods

I am currently investigating Windows Server 2008 clustering features (for fail-over and load balancing purposes). I am thinking of using NLB to balance HTTP requests to 2 or more web application servers. Is it possible to configure NLB to route…
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Network Load Balancer, between two standalone computers, user gets access denied on the second member of the cluster

I have set up a few NLB clusters without problems, so far they have been administered with the administrator user. Now I have created a few users who are identical on both members of the cluster, all with administrative rights. When the users try to…
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NLB Accessed Denied from second server

Have NLB set up and working. Just two servers, web1 and web2. I set up NLB on web1 and can view both machines as Converged. (I had to specify a login/pass to connect to web2). On web2, looking at the NLB Manager, it only shows web2 and says in the…
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NLB Port Rules - Load Weight of 100

NLB allows admins to set up a node to handle 100% of the load for a particular port. If that node fails, will no other nodes handle the request because of the port rule?
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IIS/MSSQL HA on two servers? NLB + Mirroring

We currently have the one server doing MSSQL/IIS. Can use NLB with two servers running IIS for HA and can use database mirroring and put the failover partner in the connection string for HA. Can we use NLB + Mirroring together? So if one of the…
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Struggling to set-up NLB cluster

I'm trying to set up NLB on a couple of Windows 2008 R2 virtual servers running on top of Hyper V R2. The servers each have a single vNIC for LAN access (and a second vNIC for SAN access). I'm setting up the cluster to use Multicast mode. The vNICs…
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Updated: NLB 2 Windows Server 2003 Servers - Looking to Hire SysAdmin to solve!

I need to configure windows NLB on 2 dedicated servers I have. My main machine has been running for some time, with several domain names pointing to the servers primary IP address. Both servers have 2 NIC's installed, and both have several secondary…
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AWS NLB routing from separate CIDR block thru DirectConnect

In my VPC I have 2 CIDR blocks, one can only have a very limited number of IPs, so a very small CIDR block that also has routing rules to be able to talk through a DX to a CORP network. If I were to create another, larger, CIDR block of different…
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SharePoint server planing for redundancy and load balancing

I am looking into SharePoint but have some problems to understand how to plan the servers in order to get good availability at the same time as using load balancing. I have basically planned for the most basic setup which is Two Front end…
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How companies use single VIP for multiple L4 services

I have two public IP's alloted by network team NAT'ed to two private IP x.x.x.2 and x.x.x.3. This private IP is assigned as a VIP on my Load Balancer. I am wondering how these two VIP's can be used for multiple L4 services on my software based AVI…
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Control how requests are distributed on a NLB cluster

We are testing an application on an NLB cluster. We notice that the requests are not being spread evenly between the servers in the NLB cluster. Is there anyway do configure the requests to be spread evenly between the servers?
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Simple IP load balancer for web service that runs on Windows XP or Windows 7 Professional?

I've a closed code application that needs to connect to a web service that needs to run on XPs or Windows 7 (desktop). The application can only connect to a single IP address. The application is low volume - less than 1000 HTTP GETs a day. The…
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