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Network Load Balancing
Features of Network Load Balancing
Distributes traffic across two or more nodes
Uses standard hardware
Improves scalability
Does not synchronize nodes
Improvements in Network Load Balancing for Windows Server 2008
Networking
Security
Installation and management
Troubleshooting Network Load Balancing
Check
Applications on each node
Connectivity
Network configuration
Firewall
IPSec
Proxy server
Clustering Features in Windows Server 2008
Clustering Features:
• Failover support
• Scalability
• Versions
• Multiple models
– Shared Quorum Disk
– Majority node set
• Geographically dispersed clusters
• Storage
• Windows versions supporting clusters