Some things cannot be Load Balanced and should be clustered, for example File Systems. Some things can be Load Balanced, for example iPrint. Right now, you can cluster iPrint, and it shares a configuration. This is just a step away from iPrint being Load Balanced. Shared configuration means every time you add another iPrint machine to the cluster, it will automagically be configured the same as the other iPrint machines.

Cluster services is already 95% there: the iPrint appliances with the same configuration could be behind a Load Balancer to increase fault tolerance and to increase the number of connections, or, if you must, redirect round robin to each healthy iPrint server in the cluster.

So how about making that extra check box "This Cluster Resource will be behind a Load Balancer" available for resources that can be Load Balanced?

by: Gord L. | over a year ago | Cluster Services (NCS)