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Microsoft Cluster Service Or Network Load Balancing?
News The first of my recent articles on Windows clustering prompted a member to ask about the differences between the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) and Microsoft's other clustering technology, network load balancing (NLB).
[November 7, 2002, 15:28]
Load Balancing Exchange 2007 Client Access Servers Using Windows Network Load-Balancing Technology - Part 3: Creating Certificates And Testing Client Services
White Papers In this paper the author shows how to create a new Subject Alternative Name (SAN) certificate that includes all necessary Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) and NetBIOS names and install it on both nodes in the NLB cluster.
[April 2, 2008, 0:00]
Clustering Options For Windows 2000
White Papers Windows 2000 clustering components Cluster Service, Network Load Balancing, and Component Load Balancing can be used to create highly available, scalable environments for many types of applications. This white paper discusses four different...
[March 1, 2004, 23:00]
Flow Based Dynamic Load Balancing For Passive Network Monitoring
White Papers Most cluster-based architectures, however, do not consider load balancing as an important issue. Conventional methods rely on fixed or random routing where a "Source-destination" address pair is used as a unit for load balancing.
[March 3, 2008, 23:00]
Building A Stable Infrastructure For Growth
News Load balancing involves creating a cluster of servers - a group of separate physical machines that are configured with the same applications and work like one logical server. Load balancing requires special software that allows all the servers in...
[August 9, 2005, 11:45]
What's The Best Way To Increase Processing Power?
News For example, Windows Server 2003 supports up to 32 network load balancing (NLB) cluster nodes. However, other types of clusters perform load balancing, where the processing load is distributed across two or more computers.
[August 2, 2006, 16:40]
TeleWest To Move To Zeus
News It is also capitalising on fears of the insecurity of Microsoft's IIS server to sell Zeus as a load balancing firewall for IIS server farms. Load balancing has been brought out as an add-on to Zeus 4.0, letting them act as a firewall, repelling DOS...
[November 14, 2001, 14:29]
Cluster Service With IIS: How And Why
News The standard advice on offering high availability with IIS is to use network load balancing (NLB) rather than the Cluster Service. When using the Cluster Service with IIS, you must take the following issues into consideration:
[October 23, 2002, 8:54]
TechNet Webcast: Creating A Highly Available SMS Site (Level 200)
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn how to deploy an SMS cluster with Network Load Balancing (NBL) and availability in mind.
[May 2, 2008, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: Clustering Windows Server 2003 And SQL Server 2000 And 2005 (Level 200)
White Papers Microsoft provides Network Load Balancing (NLB) and Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) to implement low-cost, highly available clusters. NLB distributes incoming IP traffic across a cluster of servers, and MSCS exploits redundancy across multiple...
[October 6, 2005, 0:00]
A Scalable, High-Availability Antivirus Solution: A High-Performance, High-Availability, Antivirus And Content Security Clustering Solution
White Papers The dynamic load balancing distributes the content scanning evenly across a VirusWall security cluster while taking into account the relative capacity, system utilization and available memory at any given moment with each node.
[June 5, 2004, 0:00]
MS Windows NT Load Balancing Service Whitepaper
White Papers Microsoft Windows NT Load Balancing Service (WLBS), a feature of Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition, provides load balancing and clustering for mission critical enterprise-class applications. WLBS dynamically distributes IP traffic across...
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
Speculative TCP Connection Admission Using Connection Migration In Cluster-Based Servers
White Papers Speculative connection admission targets distributed load balancing policies at the back-end level that leverage request routing decisions taken outside the cluster. This paper presents speculative TCP connection admission, a mechanism for...
[December 26, 2007, 23:00]
Introducing Windows 2000 Clustering Technologies
White Papers By deploying Network Load Balancing across a front-end Web server farm, and clustering back-end line-of-business applications such as databases with Cluster service, you can gain all the benefits of near-linear scalability with no server or...
[November 18, 2003, 23:00]
Novell NetWare 6 And Multiprocessing Unit
White Papers After all, performance improvements in server throughput, application support power, and load balancing across a cluster all owe much to the technical foundation of multiprocessor support. Multiprocessing may be the left-out middle child of Novell...
[October 6, 2003, 0:00]
Scalability Of A Low-Cost Multi-Teraflop Linux Cluster For High-End Classical Atomistic And Quantum Mechanical Simulations
White Papers These scalable parallel applications use spacetime multiresolution algorithms and feature computational-space decomposition, wavelet-based adaptive load balancing, and spacefilling-curve-based data compression for scalable I/O.
[April 3, 2007, 0:00]
StorageCentral SRM: Cluster Support
White Papers Clustered servers provide high availability and load balancing by attaching two or more servers to a single shared disk array. To support high availability, the shared cluster resources are made available on one node of the cluster at a time.
[November 14, 2007, 23:00]
Load Balancing Exchange Front-End Servers
White Papers Front-end servers are easily overloaded and with the growing popularity of remote access options such as OWA, OMA, RPC and EAS, load balancing front-end servers is starting to become more popular in an effort to increase performance and provide...
[October 20, 2006, 0:00]
Workload Management With Oracle Real Application Clusters
White Papers Oracle Database 10g Release 2 includes a load balancing advisory that provides real-time information to the application tier on the service level being provided by the database. This paper discusses the features of Oracle Real Application Clusters...
[March 9, 2006, 23:00]
Data Quality Management In A Database Cluster With Lazy Replication
White Papers This information can be exploited to optimize query load balancing. The authors consider the use of a database cluster with lazy replication. In this paper, controlling the quality of replicated data based on users' requirements is important to...
[February 1, 2007, 23:00]
