Questions tagged [windows-nlb]
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How to install NLB on 2 win 7 machines with IIS 7.5
Is it possible to make a load balancing cluster that uses 2 win7 machines with IIS installed.
I want to make a cluster between 2 such machines.
I figured out how to add the Network Load Balancing Manager feature to WIN7 and I am using this tutorial.…

radu florescu
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renaming Server 2008 R2 NLB Cluster
I need to replace an existing web app server with an NLB cluster pair of servers which are already converged under a certain name/IP address. I will rename the standalone server first, then rename the existing NLB cluster to take over the name…

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Does NLB support multiple VIPs? Windows Server 2008 R2
Currently we have a working NLB cluster of web servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5 with one virtual IP address.
We have three web servers in the cluster the VIP is 141, and the web servers each have an IP address of 142, 143 and…

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NLB NIC w/ Static IP permanently "Acquiring Network Address" after adding more IP's to the cluster
We have a 2 node NLB cluster. I recently added more IP's to the cluster range, after which point, the NLB NIC's on both of my nodes ended up in a permanent "acquiring network address" state.
The cluster appears to be functioning despite this hang in…

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Configuration of Microsoft NLB
I'm having an application hosted on a VM server2012r2. This application has a webpart, running .NET 5 (Kestrel).
The webpart is accessible via http://:808 or https://:4434.
I have setup a second VM, a server 2019. The application…

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Windows NLB : Get-NLBClusterNode reports Invalid Data
I've setup a cluster of 2 Nodes using Windows Network Load Balancing feature. Everything is well setup, my cluster
For moinitoring purposes, I'd like to get the status of the nodes within the cluster by using PowerShell. I've discovered this Nagios…

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Windows Server NLB vs hardware-based NLB
Can somebody with extensive experience explain me what are the selling points of hardware-based NLB over Windows NLB and what are major/main disadvantages of Windows NLB? I recently read through some materials which claim that Windows NLB is…

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How to implement a network fault tolerance on a Windows Server 2008 R2, Single Server - Dual NIC? Only Windows Services like DNS, DHCP, File Server
Diagram 1: Server, VIP IP Address, Network connections, Switches and Clients
Hello There!
We have an IBM x3650 M3, Dual NIC. We have Windows Server 2008 R2. In this Window we will have services like:
Proxy: using ForeFront 2010
FTP: Using…

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Two NLB mutlicast clusters on the same VLAN processing same traffic
I have an older ISA2006 based NLB cluster which I plan to migrate to a new TMG2010 NLB cluster. I need to have both clusters active for some time during migration (with different IPs of course).
Both NLB clusters operate in multicast mode, and…

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Domain connection becomes flaky, but why?
I just had a server in our lab disallow me from adding it as a host in Windows Load Balancing.
Suddenly, out of the blue (cause this has been working fine), when I tried to re-add the machine into the load balanced cluster, it requested credentials.…

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MS Server 2008 NLB: Writing on Harddisk
I'm in a confusing situation right now: I have 2 MS Server 2008, hosting a WCF-Webservice which is basically reading data from an SQL-Server and forwarding it to the client.
We use NLB to loadbalance those two applicationservers.
During Loadtests…

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Communicating from a set of load-balanced Windows servers back to the same set of load-balanced servers
We have a set of load-balanced (using Microsoft NLB v6.1) Windows servers (Windows Server 2008 R2) with IIS7 that host a range of web applications. These web applications do a lot of web service requests to external web services, which is fine.
We…

Asbjørn Ulsberg
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Network Load Balancing problem
Summary
I have two machines in an NLB cluster. If I shut-down one machine (to simulate failure) then the second doesn't take-up the load. I'm looking for help in diagnosing the reason for this.
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I have built a test/staging system consisting…

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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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Does Windows Network Load Balancing feature support QUIC?
I'm trying to determine if the Windows Server feature Network Load Balancing supports the QUIC protocol. It seems unlikely but I am not finding anything definitive through web search. Assuming Windows Server 2022.
Anybody seen definite word or…

M Herbener
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