i thinlk your confused meverest
i setup a webfarm Using the bulit in NLB in windows 2003 IIS
this is create a webfarm for load balancing i believe not just failover
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Browse All Topicsi have a IIS WEB FARM 2 servers using NLB
my problem is traffic to the websites all goes to only one webserver
if i take that server down then traffic goes to second server
its not being balanced
ANY CLUES AS TO WHY?
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Hi,
OK - take a look at this article:
http://learn.iis.net/page.
there is also a link to another good resource in the comments at the bottom of that article.
Cheers.
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by: meverestPosted on 2009-09-12 at 05:20:24ID: 25316195
Hi,
you need another device to handle the load balancing - otherwise how does the network know which server to route a request? you have apparently successfully implemented a fail-over, which is better than sharing the load: if you need two servers just to deliver the workload, then if you lose one of them you lose the entire app (the other will fail under the doubled load) if one server can handle it, then why wear out the other one to handle half the load?
Cheers!