Utilizing and Understanding Clustering for SharePoint
The operating system for SharePoint—Windows Server 2003—provides two clustering technologies, Network Load Balancing (NLB) and the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS). NLB is available on the Standard version of the platform, whereas MSCS is only available on the Enterprise and Datacenter server platforms. Clustering is the grouping of independent server nodes accessed and viewed on the network as a single system. When an application is run from a cluster, the end user can connect to a single cluster node to perform his work, or each request can be handled by multiple nodes in the cluster. In cases where data is read-only, the client may request data and receive the information from all the nodes ...
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