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Evaluating the Characteristics
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Complexity
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Software NLB
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NLB is simple to implement.
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Low
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Hardware load balancer
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Hardware load balancers tend to increase the complexity of the environment, because two are needed and additional knowledge is required.
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Medium
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Cost
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Software NLB
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NLB is available in all editions of Windows Server 2008. As a best practice, include an additional network adapter to all nodes in the cluster to create a private network for the cluster heartbeat.
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Low
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Hardware load balancer
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Two or more hardware load balancers are needed to ensure fault tolerance. If only one hardware load balancer is used, it becomes the single point of failure.
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High
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Fault tolerance
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Software NLB
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