Have you done any monitoring on the NIC cards to see if there is a bottleneck? Do you see high utilization on your network switches/routers? What type of NIC cards do the servers have? What are the duplex settings?
You could do something as simple as entries in the HOSTS files of the two servers. But I would suggest looking at your network first before going to something like this. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: adding 2nd NIC question I have 2 W2K3 servers that transfer a lot of data between them. I would like to enable the 2nd NIC in each server and connect them with a cross-over cable. I'm hoping this will improve the performance of the data transfers between the 2 servers and ease congestion on the LAN. How I would I configure the 2 servers so that they use their 2nd NIC to communicate with each other and use their 1st NIC to communicate with the rest of the network? Thanks! ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
