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August 14, 2001 06:14 PM

The Tao of Network Load Balancing

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Tim Huckaby
Windows IT Pro
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Configuring NLB clusters to achieve balance in your IIS 5.0 Web farm
Windows 2000's Network Load Balancing (NLB) is a clustering technology that balances the network traffic of IP-based applications, such as Web, FTP, and VPN applications, across multiple servers. A software-based load-balancing solution available in Win2K Advanced Server and Win2K Datacenter Server, NLB streamlines administration by letting you manage a group of independent servers as one system. Administrators typically use NLB to evenly distribute Web client requests among Web servers, such as in a Microsoft Internet information Services (IIS) 5.0 server farm.

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V6/20/2008 11:10:28 AM

I have configure NLB before reading this Article,But this article explains it very good,
Hope to read articles on Windows Cluster Service
Thanks

Ahmed Yehia 12/2/2001 2:21:23 AM

I'm interested in hearing more about how NLB was used to load balance printing... i thought you needed to setup an MSCS Cluster to provide failover support for printers

Anthony Paulina 8/21/2001 10:04:54 PM

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