Windows Load Balancer - Multiple Sites

Requirement is not clear

If you are talking about windows NLB, you have to have pair of network cards for each web site because you cannot assign one network card pair to multiple web sites

Also unless you mention complete url address request cannot be routed to exact web sites with wild card entry

if you could provide more details about your requirement, it will help

Mahesh

Right that make sense, as these are VM's within Hyper-V, will I need to add a new switch to the Hyper-V? So that the VM can pick this up?

Regards,

introlux

Ok
If you are having hyper-V server you can have two physical network cards on hyper-v server, create two external networks with above physical network cards so that physical network cards will be converted to switch, use one NIC for heart beat and one for NLB production network

Now on every virtual machine create two virtual adapters and assign them above external networks and then create unicast NLB cluster with virtual IP for hosted web site on that server
create DNS entry as required to point above VIP

The same process needs to be followed for every web site and web servers to publish with windows NLB cluster

if you wanted to use multicast NLB cluster, that is also possible and in that case only one virtual NIC is required per virtual server
Then you do not require Heart beat adapter on Hyper-V host server and you can utilize that adapter as a another NLB production network

Mahesh

Hi,

Thank you for the info, looking to use multicast but I can only see one adapter. When I try to add another via the switch manager in Hyper-V it causes an error and does not create it.

Any idea's will be appreciated.

Regards,

introlux

Thanks