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Overview of the Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster

Overview of the Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster - Windows Server Tutorial

From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Network Services

Overview of the Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster

- One of the things we have in our environment is, if I have two, three, four, or five computers, and these computers are running the same application, and I want to be able to basically load balance those applications. The operation system itself (mateively), can not support running those machines because I can only assign one IP address to each machine. We can't have duplicate IP addresses. So one of the features that Microsoft has had around forever and this is not a new concept, is a concept called Network Load Balancing. The ability to assign more than one IP address to ... let me rephrase that. To be able to assign the same IP address to multiple different machines so that now those machines can participate in what's called a Network Load Balancing Cluster. So that the service behind the scenes, when a user makes a request of, let's say a web-server or web-services, if I am load balancing the web-services, and I have two machines that are running. The Network Load Balancing…

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