I have searched the database here and googled already and most (if not all) answered referring to the NLB Documentation from Microsoft.
But I also read that Microsoft says you supposed to use the "general script" resource on a Microsoft Cluster in order to cluster the IIS service but doesn't give more info in how to and how it works in general.
So my question is now : Do you NEED NLB in order to cluster a simple website ? The location of the website can obviously be on a storage resource, but what about the settings etc. ?
I know there are thousands of pages available on microsoft.com - but I hope someone has a simple how to as I might need to do this in a hurry :(
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Great - seems like you need to search for failures rather than solutions in order to find a guide http://support.microsoft.c
Have a look at the following link please:
http://technet2.microsoft.
It's quite explicative. In Windows 2003 clustering IIS 6.0 goes through the creation of a Generic Script resource. In the systemroot\system32\inetsr
(Don't bother about the upgrading stuff, it's only for those who upgrade a Windows 2000 server to Windows 2003).
Let us know if that's ok.
For those of you that really want to go through this process HP have come up with a really useful guide:
http://h71019.www7.hp.com/
This goes through the full IIS clustering scenario on HP kit. It worked!!!
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by: r_panosPosted on 2008-05-19 at 11:29:03ID: 21600256
Cluster and NLB are two different things.
In order to cluster websites in IIS you must install IIS to all nodes partecipating in Cluster (MSCS), define the website(s) as virtual directory that resides on the shared storage to all nodes and cluster the service pointing to the .vbs file that comes with the IIS installation (same for FTP)
NLB doesn't need shared storage but it does need manual allignment of the website contents as each NLB node has it's own web site and web content locally.
You don't need NLB to cluster (MSCS) a website and NLB IS NOT supported on Cluster (MSCS).