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Eslami, Ali

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Since: Jul 20, 2006
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:30 pm
Post subject: Network Load Balancing
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I am installing (2) HP DL 380's, each server has 2 NIC's. My final goal is
to load balance the network connections via Windows 2003 Network Load
Balancing. HP does provide it's own load balancing tool for the local
server; so I have enabled HP's load balancing on the (2) NIC's within each
server; so essentially I have 2 active NIC's now with (1) IP via HP's
tool...I now want to load balance the 2 servers but whenever I try it keeps
failing. I am wondering if I cannot use HP's load balancing tool with
Windows 2003 load balancing.

So 2 NIC's in each server; HP software has load balanced the physical NIC's
within each server so that each server now has 1 IP address (HP Teaming).
Now on top of that I am trying to load balance each servers IP address into
a network cluster...am I throwing too many layers into this?

Ali

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Phillip Windell

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:33 pm
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That isn't NLB,...that is Nic Teaming.
Nic Teaming is what HP is doing.

NLB is a type of "server clustering" (server arrays) and has nothing to do
with nics.
NLB is what MS is doing.

They are two different things.
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"Eslami, Ali" wrote in message

>I am installing (2) HP DL 380's, each server has 2 NIC's. My final goal is
>to load balance the network connections via Windows 2003 Network Load
>Balancing. HP does provide it's own load balancing tool for the local
>server; so I have enabled HP's load balancing on the (2) NIC's within each
>server; so essentially I have 2 active NIC's now with (1) IP via HP's
>tool...I now want to load balance the 2 servers but whenever I try it keeps
>failing. I am wondering if I cannot use HP's load balancing tool with
>Windows 2003 load balancing.
>
> So 2 NIC's in each server; HP software has load balanced the physical
> NIC's within each server so that each server now has 1 IP address (HP
> Teaming). Now on top of that I am trying to load balance each servers IP
> address into a network cluster...am I throwing too many layers into this?
>
> Ali
>

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RickyVene

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:31 am
Post subject: Re: Network Load Balancing [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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So NLB is still different from adaptive balancing.

Do you still advise using NLB on two NICS with adaptive balancing especially
with IIS and Exchange server?

My ISA 2004 is still giving me error regarding slow connectivity on IIS
server. But there's no clue of what so ever.

Can I use clustering IP for each port like one IP for port 80 and another
one for port 21? I'll use three more cluster IP for the ranges of 0-20,
22-79, 81-65535 or I don't need to.

Is that going to give me faster network connectivity ?

Please advise.

Thanks,
Ricky

"Phillip Windell" wrote:

> That isn't NLB,...that is Nic Teaming.
> Nic Teaming is what HP is doing.
>
> NLB is a type of "server clustering" (server arrays) and has nothing to do
> with nics.
> NLB is what MS is doing.
>
> They are two different things.
> --
> Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
> www.wandtv.com
>
> "Eslami, Ali" wrote in message
>
> >I am installing (2) HP DL 380's, each server has 2 NIC's. My final goal is
> >to load balance the network connections via Windows 2003 Network Load
> >Balancing. HP does provide it's own load balancing tool for the local
> >server; so I have enabled HP's load balancing on the (2) NIC's within each
> >server; so essentially I have 2 active NIC's now with (1) IP via HP's
> >tool...I now want to load balance the 2 servers but whenever I try it keeps
> >failing. I am wondering if I cannot use HP's load balancing tool with
> >Windows 2003 load balancing.
> >
> > So 2 NIC's in each server; HP software has load balanced the physical
> > NIC's within each server so that each server now has 1 IP address (HP
> > Teaming). Now on top of that I am trying to load balance each servers IP
> > address into a network cluster...am I throwing too many layers into this?
> >
> > Ali
> >
>
>
>
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Phillip Windell

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:32 pm
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"RickyVene" wrote in message

> So NLB is still different from adaptive balancing.
> Do you still advise using NLB on two NICS with adaptive balancing
> especially
> with IIS and Exchange server?

NLB is two servers,...not two nics. The servers are identical and have one
nic each.

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