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From what I understand Clustering is only supported in Windows 2003 Enterprise and Data Center Editions and I would assume that you need them both to be Data Center or better. &nbsp;So you could have one data center edition and one enterprise but not standard. &nbsp; <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/features/comparefeatures.mspx" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/features/comparefeatures.mspx</a>
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From what I understand Clustering is only supported in Windows 2003 Enterprise and Data Center Editions and I would assume that you need them both to be Data Center or better.  So you could have one data center edition and one enterprise but not standard.   http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/features/comparefeatures.mspx [http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/features/comparefeatures.mspx]

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What about if they are just being used for load balancing purposes?
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What about if they are just being used for load balancing purposes?

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Is there a problem with setting up a server cluster with one NOS being different than the other NOS? &nbsp;We have a load balanced cluster with one server being Windows 2003 Server Standard and one Windows 2003 Server Enterprise. &nbsp;Please let me know if this is &quot;legal&quot; or not. &nbsp;Thanks!!
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Is there a problem with setting up a server cluster with one NOS being different than the other NOS?  We have a load balanced cluster with one server being Windows 2003 Server Standard and one Windows 2003 Server Enterprise.  Please let me know if this is "legal" or not.  Thanks!!

Windows 2003 Server Standard and Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Load Balance

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