It's on Hyper-V, I believe. I read that you need two NICs for unicast, so I've got the server admins to add a second NIC which I am now going to configure.
I was stopping IIS and expecting it to failover, but that appears to be out of scope for NLB, as far as I can tell from this discourse. I will try disabling it in NLB Manager, as rebooting brings it back too quickly to tell if it's failed over or not, and I don't have access to Hyper-V to shut it down. I am assuming that although it can't do intelligent failover, it does do intelligent load balancing - i.e. it will route connections to the server with the least load? Cheers, JR On 6 February 2014 23:54, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > How are you "stopping the server"? If you're turning it off, or > disabling in NLB manager, and everything stops working, then I don't think > your cluster's working properly. Everything's just going to node 1 > > > > Are you running this in VMs? If so, you may need to do some extra steps to > get multicast to work. > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *James Rankin > *Sent:* Friday, 7 February 2014 1:54 AM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [NTSysADM] NLB on Server 2012 R2 > > > > Anyone had any luck with configuring this? Must admit, I am an NLB-noob, > so I've probably done something wrong.... > > Trying to configure an NLB cluster for an IIS-based app on Server 2012 R2. > > Got two servers with the IIS app, Server1 and Server2 > > Configured an NLB cluster to load balance these called Cluster1 > > When both servers are up, everything seems to work fine. However, when I > stop IIS on Server1, connecting to the Cluster1 DNS name just returns "page > cannot be found". It's as if it always tries to connect to the original one > it connected to. > > I can connect to http://Server1/app and http://Server2/app just fine. > > I can connect to http://Cluster1/app fine as long as both servers are up. > > If I shut down Server1, I can no longer connect to http://Cluster1/app > > What obvious thing should I be checking? There's not an awful lot of > options to try with NLB - switching to Multicast seems to stop it working > altogether :-( > > I've also messed with various bits of IIS but given that both servers > accept connections I don't really think it's related to that. > > Give me a NetScaler any day over NLB! > > TIA, > > > > JRR > > > -- > > *James Rankin* > --------------------- > RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization > Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization > http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk > -- *James Rankin* --------------------- RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
