Building A Stable Infrastructure For Growth
News Load balancing requires special software that allows all the servers in the cluster to present themselves on the network as a single entity with a single (virtual) IP address. That's exactly what load balancing does for your overburdened servers.
[August 9, 2005, 11:45]
White Paper For Load Balancing
White Papers With load balancing, clients access servers through a virtual IP address. Load balancing allows incoming HTTP requests to a company's website to be distributed across several physical servers. Load balancing can be performed using application...
[July 13, 2007, 0:00]
Network Load Balancing: Configuration Best Practices For Windows 2000 And Windows Server 2003
White Papers While Network Load Balancing uses Level 2 Multicast for the delivery of packets, Cisco's interpretation of the RFCs is that Multicast is for IP Multicast. For example, Cisco routers require an ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) entry for every...
[October 7, 2006, 0:00]
Gateway Load Balancing Protocol Overview
White Papers This paper describes the Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP) feature of Cisco IOS Software. GLBP was developed to provide automatic, first-hop gateway load balancing, which allows for more efficient resource usage and reduced administrative costs.
[December 9, 2006, 23:00]
Scalable Web Server Design For Distributed Data Management
White Papers The DCWS system effectively eliminates the bottleneck of centralized resources, while balancing the load among distributed web servers. DCWS servers may be located in different networks, or even different continents and still balance load effectively.
[August 26, 2003, 0:00]
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]
Dual NICs For Niftier Networking
News You must specify one NIC as primary, with a dedicated, virtual IP address that will be shared by all of the load-balancing NICs. One possible option to explore, which member Sean Flynn recommended, was IP Metrics' NIC Express, a software utility...
[July 23, 2002, 8:32]
Secure Your DNS - Replace BIND
News TinyDNS handles load balancing and client differentiation, or directing clients to specific servers.WalldnsWalldns hides local host information from requested reverse and forward records.RbldnsRbldns is an IP address-listing DNS service.
[February 5, 2003, 9:32]
New Shield Repelled Internet Backbone Attack
News The distributed denial-of-service attack on the Domain Name System (DNS) proved the effectiveness of the Anycast load-balancing system, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said in a document published on Thursday.
[March 12, 2007, 8:24]
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. For more information, see "Contents of Internet Information Server 5.0 Release Notes" [Q250979] and search for...
[October 23, 2002, 8:54]
