Title: Configuring and Managing Network Load Balancing and Failover Clustering
Course: CTS 2392 Configuring Advanced Windows 2012 Services > Section: Module 1

Introduction

Network Load Balancing seamlessly distributes traffic across multiple servers using virtual IP addresses that share a name providing enhanced performance automatically in a cluster of two or more servers. Changes made to any of the servers become converged with the rest of the cluster in a synchronized fashion. Failover Clusters are redundant servers that monitor the status of the cluster and should a failure occur in a server, the cluster elects a failover server to replace the failed server. This provides a high degree of reliability in providing file and application services. In this module you will implement NLB and configure a failover cluster.

Objectives

Upon completion of this module, the student will be able to:

- Install Network Load Balancing
- Install and configure Failover Clustering
- Implement cluster Aware Updating

Readings & Resources

- Lesson 1 Configuring Network Load Balancing pp. 1-17
- Lesson 2 Configuring Failover Clustering pp. 18-43
- Lesson 3 Managing Failover Clustering pp. 44-59