Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Network Load Balancing
The second clustering technology provided with Windows Server 2012 is Network Load Balancing (NLB). NLB clusters provide high network performance, availability, and redundancy by balancing client requests across several servers with replicated configurations. When client load increases, NLB clusters can easily be scaled out by adding more nodes to the cluster to maintain or provide better response time to client requests. One important point to note now is that NLB does not itself replicate server configuration or application datasets.
Two great features of NLB are that no proprietary hardware is needed and an NLB cluster can be configured and up and running literally in minutes. One important point to remember is that ...
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