One of the things I think it's important to realize is that there's a big difference between load balancing and clustering. Depending on whether you want scalability or availability, and depending on whether you want a stateful or stateless system, you might choose one over the other. Check out [1] for a little more background. It's fairly short.
[1] http://staff.develop.com/candera/bin/ScalableSystems/whitepaper.zip > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 6:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] .NET Remoting In a Clustered > Environment. > > > MS has always recommended against clustering IIS in MS > Cluster Server, and if you intend on using IIS to host your > remote objects, you may experience some issues. Specifically, > installing the .Net Framework breaks the IISSYNC > application that is used to replicate IIS metadata between > cluster nodes before clustering IIS. Breaks it badly enough > that running IISSYNC in the broken state corrupts the > metadata so badly that a re-install of IIS is required. This is > not a terribly fun process ;) > > This is the only real issue I have seen with respect to MSCS and .Net. > > <geekMode> How asynchronous? Would MSMQ solve that particular > bit? MSMQ can be clustered. MSMQ Triggers can invoke .Net > applications / COM+ wrapped .Net assemblies.</geekMode> > > --------------------------- > Justin E. Pitts, Sr Programmer Analyst > PC Applications Development > BIG LOTS -- World's Best Bargain Place > 614 278-3255 > > > > Vikram S > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent by: "Moderated cc: > discussion of advanced > Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] .NET Remoting In a Clustered Environment. > .NET topics." > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > EVELOP.COM> > > > 12/16/2002 06:39 PM > Please respond to > "Moderated discussion of > advanced .NET topics." > > > > > > > Hi, > > I am planning to use .NET Remoting for transfering data > between client and > server in an asynchronous way. Since the application needs to > be highly > available, we will be using a Win2k Cluster with fail-over. > Are there any > issues in using .NET Remoting with any particular type of cluster ?? > > Thanks, > Vikram > > You can read messages from the Advanced DOTNET archive, > unsubscribe from Advanced DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. > > You can read messages from the Advanced DOTNET archive, > unsubscribe from Advanced DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. > You can read messages from the Advanced DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from Advanced DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
