If you want to do geographically dispersed load balancing then you are immediately looking at doing a hardware load balancing solution. Even if you are looking at putting the servers in one location you will probably want to look at a hardware load balancer (Cisco, Alteon (Nortel), F5) to allow you to more granularly control access to the load balanced servers and also provide you with easier management/monitoring of the load balanced group.
Note that not every hardware load balancer has the capability of doing geographically dispersed clusters. Phil On 7/7/05, John Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all... > > Just wondering how one would go about load balancing three to six Windows > Media 9 Servers. I can do round robin DNS, but that's not quite what I'm > looking for. I would really like to be able to do this across different > subnets so we can place a couple servers around the country. If a user in FL > connects to a VOD or live stream, they will then connect to the server > nearest them, or at the very least, the server with the least amonut of load. > > Thanks, > > John Parker, MCSE > IS Admin. > Senior Technical Specialist > Alpha Display Systems. > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
