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Failover vs. NLB

 
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spike
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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:17 am    Post subject: Failover vs. NLB Reply with quote
I setup clustered failover with shared disk on 2 nodes in WIN2003 ent.
edition. Customer wanted no down time on a 3rd party data base that uses ISS
and Apache. I wanted to setup IIS with failover (failover was used because it
comes with a high dollar USB license key which I planned to manually switch
over on failover). But from what I've been reading I can't setup IIS in
failover mode, or there is no documentation to do this. Should I be changing
to NLB? What is recommend for 3rd party apps to be loaded on C: of both
servers or loaded on the shared drive? And what determines if it is a
generic service or a generic application? I kind of new to this.
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Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]
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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:18 pm    Post subject: Re: Failover vs. NLB Reply with quote
NLB is the way to go. But if you want to use clustering read this checklist
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/datacenter/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/datacenter/proddocs/en-us/sag_MSCScheck_19.asp
and this how to:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q248/0/25.asp&NoWebContent=1

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog

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Quote:
I setup clustered failover with shared disk on 2 nodes in WIN2003 ent.
edition. Customer wanted no down time on a 3rd party data base that uses
ISS
and Apache. I wanted to setup IIS with failover (failover was used because
it
comes with a high dollar USB license key which I planned to manually
switch
over on failover). But from what I've been reading I can't setup IIS in
failover mode, or there is no documentation to do this. Should I be
changing
to NLB? What is recommend for 3rd party apps to be loaded on C: of both
servers or loaded on the shared drive? And what determines if it is a
generic service or a generic application? I kind of new to this.
Back to top
 
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