Load Balancing

[Naveen]

Hi Folks,
can u anyone help me how to configure load balancing for a
server which has two NIC card.
Goodday
Naveen

 

[Jimmy Andersson [MVP]]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/clustering.mspx

Regards,
/Jimmy

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

It totally dependant on the NICS. You need to get the proper software from
the NIC Manufacturer and you may have to get different NICs as most basic
ones do not support this you typically need a Managment or Pro adaptor as
some of the companies call them.

 

[Tomasz Onyszko]

It totally dependant on the NICS. You need to get the proper software from
the NIC Manufacturer and you may have to get different NICs as most basic
ones do not support this you typically need a Managment or Pro adaptor as
some of the companies call them.

Depending what You mean by "load balancing". If you want to agregate
bandwitdht and provide failover for network connection You are right -
You have to use proper equipment and drivers which supports teaming
configuration

But If You want to load balance service like IIS or DNS on several
servers You can use NLBS or simple DNS Round Robin solution

 

[Guest]

But If You want to load balance service like IIS or DNS
on several

servers You can use NLBS or simple DNS Round Robin

solution

This is how I would do it if he's talking about a small
organization or a "home built" server. If this is a large
enterprise however, going with a teaming NIC will deliver
the expected results and takes less planning over the
entire enterprise. Round robin DNS load balancing
is "fun" when you are doing it over dozens of DC's running
as the DNS servers with round robin DNS forwarding, oh
what fun...

I would still round robin the DNS (and forwards if you
have a LOT of DNS servers) _whenever_ it's possible.