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Overview of Network Load Balancing Clusters
Network Load Balancing is a Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows Server 2003 feature. Using Network Load Balancing to build a server cluster:
You can enhance the availability of Internet server programs, such as those used on these types of servers:
Web
Proxy
Domain name service (DNS)
FTP
Virtual private network (VPN)
Streaming media servers
Terminal services
You can scale your server's performance.
You can create the cluster with virtual machines on the same physical server or with virtual machines on multiple physical servers (all running GSX Server).
You can configure up to 32 nodes in the cluster.