MOSS 2007 – Step by Step – Table of Content

In this post, we’ll enable Network Load Balancing between WFE1 and WFE2 and ensure it works for IIS Default Web Site.

    Open Local Area Connection properties on both WFE1 and WFE2… and select Network Load Balancing.

 

    Click Properties. Type in the following IP addresses (on both WFE1 and WFE2)… and confirm that Multicast is selected

    Switch to Host Parameters tab on WFE1… and type in the following. Set the Priority to 1.

    Switch to Host Parameters tab on WFE2… and type in the following. Set the Priority to 2.

    Switch back to WFE1 now. Start –> Run –> Type nlbmgr.exe
    Right click on Network Load Balancing Clusters and select New Cluster

    Ensure that the screen looks like this…

    10.0.0.10 is a Virtual IP in the screen above. After you have confirmed all the settings, click Next thrice until you see the following dialog… Type Host = WFE1 and click Connect

    Click Next… confirm the parameters… and click Finish.

    After a few seconds, you should see that the Node is added and it should become green.

    Right click on nlb.dotnetscraps.com and select “Add Host to cluster”.

    Type WFE2 and click connect. Since we are working with images, you will see an issue as follows.

    Go to Device Manager and uninstall Network Adapters from WFE2. Reboot and reinstall the adapter when prompted.

 

    Once the driver is re-installed, repeat the steps for WFE2.
    This time, if you try to connect to WFE2, you should be able to.

    Click Next and select Priority to 2. Click Finish

    If everything goes smoothly, you should have a cluster setup and working fine by now…

    Go to the machine – DC and open Internet Explorer.
    Browse to http://10.0.0.10/pagerror.gif and you should be able to see the graphic.

    On your WFE1 machine, you will have full control to the end clients… you can Start, Stop, Drainstop, Suspend and Resume all your traffic now.

    If you stop both WFE1 and WFE2, you would see an error message.

    The moment you start any server (WFE1 or WFE2), the traffic starts flowing.
    Now that we have NLB setup, we will finally proceed towards SharePoint installation.

Next step would be to install SQL and SharePoint binaries on all the machines WFE1, WFE2 and AS.

We will discuss about it in the next post. Stay tuned…

-Rahul

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