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What the IT Manager Should Know
Windows
2000® Advanced Server®
7.
Choosing the Right Clustering Technology
The
following chart shows the types of applications
that can benefit from Cluster Service and/or Network
Load Balancing, as well as the benefits of using
the technologies.
|
Scenario
|
Cluster
Service
|
Network
Load Balancing
|
Benefits
|
|
Web
Server Farm
|
|
X
|
Quickly
expands site capacity; minimizes site downtime
|
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Terminal
Servers
|
|
X
|
Quickly
expands site capacity; minimizes effects
of server failures
|
|
File/Print
Servers
|
X
|
|
Minimizes
service downtime; ensures data consistency
after fail-over
|
|
Database/Messaging
|
X
|
|
Minimizes
application downtime; ensures data consistency
after fail-over
|
|
E-Commerce
Sites
|
X
|
X
|
Quickly
expands site capacity; minimizes effects
of server/app. downtime
|
|
Virtual
Private Networking
|
|
X
|
Quickly
expands site capacity; minimizes site downtime
|
|
Streaming
Media
|
|
X
|
Quickly
expands site capacity; minimizes site downtime
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