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Fri, Oct 5 2007 9:47

Exchange Server 2007 Hub Transport (HT) and Client Access Service (CAS) on the Same NLB Cluster - Updated Jan 9, 2008

In order to keep the number of servers down in a high availability environment, administrators have been looking at using Network Load Balancing (NLB) for CAS and then co-locating the HT role on each node of the NLB cluster to also provide high availability...
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Sat, Jun 24 2006 21:40

Network Load Balancing and MAC Addresses

I learned something new yesterday. It kind of flipped me out, but now it almost makes sense. You can try this to confirm. From a client, ping the IP address of your NLB cluster. From the same client, run arp -a fom the command prompt. You should see something...
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Mon, Jun 5 2006 21:48

Network Load Balancing (NLB) and Network Interface Card (NIC) Teaming

The quick summary of this post is, "Don't use NLB on teamed NICs." Microsoft clearly says that NIC teaming "may" cause problems with NLB in KB 278431 . This is where things get confusing, because the issue is just that; it may...
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Sun, Aug 7 2005 10:33

Unicast vs. Multicast - Original Posted Feb 21, 2005

As usual, confusion motivates me to blog some more. In this case, I have blogged this because I was confused, and I am pretty sure that I have it straight now. Comments may prove me wrong. When designing, planning, testing, and implementing Network Load...
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Fri, Aug 5 2005 12:48

NLB Unicast vs. Multicast - Original Posted Feb 21, 2005

As usual, confusion motivates me to blog some more. In this case, I have blogged this because I was confused, and I am pretty sure that I have it straight now. Comments may prove me wrong. When designing, planning, testing, and implementing Network Load...
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