As our number of users increase, there will be a need sometime in the future when NLB will be required. For the interim, I am planning on using the NLB server feature included in Windows Server 2008. I see a lot of articles out there on how to set this up, but not with Host Named site collections which have dedicated IP addresses. If anyone has done this or has a good resource, I could use your knowledge. Please pass on your expertise in this matter. Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Farm Info:
- 2 WFE (need to load balance -test environment)
- 4 web application (all host-named site collections – dedicated IP’s; web app – all port 80)
- SP 2010 farm btw.
Thanks Darren.. I read that article a few weeks back. It was helpful.
Hope this helps: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/markarend/archive/2012/05/30/host-named-sit…
What Trevor said – your dedicated IPs will be VIPs in NLB now – that simple….
So Trevor, how would that look in a diagram.. Just so I am clear let me know if this is correct. With the Server 2008 feature you are required to create a cluster, so I imagine it like this:
Cluster IP: 192-168.blah.blah (I need to add a DNS entry, correct?)
In that cluster you have 2 host (WFE’s)
WFE1: 192.168.#.# (this server has 4 web app with unique IP’s. – Already in DNS)
WFE2: 192.168.#.# (this server has 4 web app. Do I need to configure like WFE1 add IP’s to the web apps along with DNS entries? )
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DNS A record points at the VIP, and the NLB software points at each individual node’s IP address.
