Creating the Additional Nodes in the Network Load Balancing Cluster

Follow these steps for each of the additional nodes you wish to create (up to 32 nodes) in the Network Load Balancing cluster:

1. Log on to your GSX Server host as the user who will own the virtual machine.

2. Launch a VMware Virtual Machine Console and create a new virtual machine (for information on creating a new virtual machine, see Creating a New Virtual Machine). Choose the settings you want (for example, the size of the virtual disk or the amount of memory), except you should specify

Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition as the guest operating system.

nlb2 as the virtual machine name.

Note: For each additional node, use the name of that node instead of nlb2.

The virtual machine directory as d:\VMware\cluster\nlb2 (on a Windows host) or /home/cluster/nlb2 (on a Linux host).

To use an existing virtual disk. Click Browse and select nlb2.vmdk.

Bridged networking for the virtual machine.

3. Connect to this virtual machine with the VMware Virtual Machine Console and choose VM > Settings.

4. Add a second networking device, binding it to another physical NIC or to the host-only network. For information, see Adding and Modifying Virtual Network Adapters.

5. Verify in the console that both virtual machines are powered off.

After you have finished creating the additional nodes, you are ready to configure the cluster.

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