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Load Balancing Options
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Load Balancing Options

Written on Aug 08 2007
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by Brian Madden

Let's look now at the actual mechanisms that can be used to load balance your Servers. There are three different ways this can be achieved:

  • Windows Network Load Balancing.
  • Third-party hardware load balancing routers.
  • Third-party software load balancing products.

Windows Network Load Balancing

Microsoft Windows Network Load Balancing ("NLB") is the "free" out-of-the-box software load balancing solution available for Windows 2003-based Terminal Servers. NLB is available with all editions of Windows Server 2003, although your Terminal Servers must be running at least the Enterprise edition of Windows to use the Session Directory.

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