Re: NLB (Load Balancing) Unicast On Windows 2003

Hello Nehemoth,

The better newsgroup for your question will be:
microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering

As you are posting this to the AD newsgroup, hopefully you wan't cluster
a DC, even it is supported.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Hello.
>
> I want to configure a NLB (Network Load Balancing) on Windows 2003 but
> I want to do so as per Microsoft Best Practices which indicate that
> the best solution should be multiple NICs (2).
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...8WS.10%29.aspx
>
> The problem is that I couldn't find no even one example of this
> configuration in the web, the closest are these two articles :
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/...cluster-adapte
> r-wit.aspx
> http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/M...ystems/Server/
> 2003_Server/Q_23146472.html
> I want to do this on a VMWARE scenario, I had already configure a NLB
> with Multicast mode which one NIC per server, very straightforward I
> should add.
>
> So my questions are very simple for someone with experience.
>
> I just one two know how should I configure the 2 NICs in every node.
> Should I use IPs in the same network?
> If so, which one card should have the gateway, the one configure to be
> seen on the network or the one for the NLB Cluster?
> The NIC configure with the NLB protocol should have which options
> (File and printing sharing for microsoft network, Gateway,DNS,Append
> parent DNS,register this connection address in the DNS,Netbios over
> TCP/IP) active?.
> Thank you
>