Network Load Balancing

Network Load Balancing (NLB) is an optional feature in Windows Server® 2008 that load balances network traffic (sent to a cluster virtual IP address) among multiple servers in an NLB cluster. NLB is particularly useful for ensuring that stateless applications, such as a Web server running Internet Information Services (IIS), are scalable by adding additional servers as the load increases.

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Missing information about port forwarding in two NIC environment
It seems that Defaults have changed between OS versions Server 2003 and Server 2008.<br /><br />Get information: netsh interface ipv4 show interface "NLB" l=verbose<br />Set new port forwarding value: netsh interface ipv4 set interface "NLB" forwarding=enabled<br /><br />Usefull Links: <mtps:InstrumentedLink NavigateUrl="http://www.numtopia.com/terry/blog/archives/2008/10/windows_2008_nlb_with_2_nics.cfm" runat="server" xmlns:mtps="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/mtps">http://www.numtopia.com/terry/blog/archives/2008/10/windows_2008_nlb_with_2_nics.cfm</mtps:InstrumentedLink><br /><br />... an other short "patch" after a long search.<br />

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