Microsoft Internet Information Services.
This tutorial is related to clustering technology as they related to web servers, definitely IIS windows Clustering, Microsoft Windows 2003 Network Load Balancing ( NLB ).
In this tutorial exactly I will show you how to implement NLB with clustering, it will make your system highly available.
Understanding the lab environment.
`Explanation:
In this lab I have two windows servers 2003 computers and one windows 7 Client for testing lab implementations.
Web-server1 |
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OS | Windows server 2003 |
IP Address | 192.168.1.1 |
Virtual IP | 192.168.1.3 |
Service | IIS 6.0 |
Web-server2 |
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OS | Windows server 2003 |
IP Address | 192.168.1.2 |
Virtual IP | 192.168.1.3 |
Service | IIS 6.0 |
Client |
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OS | Windows 7 |
IP Address | 192.168.1.4 |
The above detail is giving overview of our lab, these systems you required for completing this lab.
Follow the Setups.
Setup-1
Installation of IIS on both Servers.
See Video for this setup
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Setup-2
Place web contents on your root directory.
See Video for this setup.
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Setup-3
Network Load Balancing Settings.
Note : These settings are crucial so, if isn’t did properly then it will not work perfectly.
I hope you have successfully configured your cluster with Network Load Balancing, now you can add more hosts in this cluster by changing their network adapter’ settings.
Hope you enjoy This Tutorial.IIS Web Server Clustering Tutorial