Deploying Network Load Balancing Clusters
The other clustering technology included in Windows Server 2012 is Network Load Balancing (NLB). NLB clusters can easily be deployed on Windows Server 2012 systems. Before an NLB cluster can be deployed, the Network Load Balancing feature needs to be installed on all servers that will be members or nodes in the NLB cluster. To properly configure an NLB cluster, the administrator needs to research the type of network traffic the application or service utilizes. For example, a standard website uses TCP port 80 and standard Remote Desktop Services (RDS) utilizes port 3389. NLB is intended to intelligently load balance client connections based on the incoming traffic across multiple servers. If network redundancy ...
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