Choosing the Right Clustering Technology for SharePoint
For these fault-tolerant clustering technologies to be most effective, administrators must carefully choose which technology and configuration best fits their specific SharePoint needs. NLB is best suited to provide connectivity to stateless SharePoint front-end servers. This provides scalability, and the amount of redundancy it provides depends on the number of systems in the NLB set. The Windows Server 2003 Cluster Service provides server failover functionality for mission-critical applications such as SharePoint.
Although Microsoft does not support using both NLB and MSCS on the same server, multitiered applications can take advantage of both technologies by using NLB to load-balance ...
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