I would really appreciate any help on this as we do not have a test lab
and I have to make changes on our servers in a production enviornment
(yes, very scary). At least I haven't brought the second terminal
server online yet, that's why I'm working on using NLB for both the
servers.
The Goal
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I wish to use the NLB Manager (NOT manually configure the NLB
properties of each NLB adapter) to equally load balance two terminal
servers to be accessed via cluster1.domain.com by users AND also have
each assigned a unique IP, thus allowing me to bypass the cluster IP,
to manually specify the terminal server I wish to connect to for
administrative tasks.
Both are running Server 2003 and I'll worry about Session Directory via
group policy later once I can get this running and then install
Enterprise on both servers.
The Hardware and Network Info
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Cluster Settings:
- IP Address
- 111.111.111.1
- Subnet Mask
- 255.255.255.0
- Full Internet Name
- cluster1.domain.com
- Cluster Operation Mode
- Unicast
- No Additional IP Addresses
- Port Rules
- All/3389/TCP/Multiple Host (No Affinity)
Server 1:
- Network Cards
- LAN 1 (CLUSTER) = (set by NLB Manager)
- LAN 2 (STATIC) = 111.111.111.2
Server 2:
- Network Cards
- LAN 1 (CLUSTER) = (set by NLB Manager)
- LAN 2 (STATIC) = 111.111.111.3
I have 2 network cards in each server.
Using unicast mode, one adapter needs dedicated to NLB activity using
the cluster IP, and I'd like to configure the other as a static IP for
all other traffic.
What I've Done So Far
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Read many online tutorials, but none that CLEARLY detail using 2
network adapters in unicast (1 for the cluster and 1 static) AND
explain exaclty how to go about setting the static IP on the second
adapter.
The Problems & Questions I'm Having
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Question 1: Using the NLB Manager, I select the LAN 1 (CLUSTER)
adapter and I am asked to set the dedicated IP at the end of the
wizard.
Now I read somewhere that if I'm using two adapters I do not enter
anything for dedicated IP and subnet mask. Is this true? And if not,
what do I enter here? Certainly not the static IP right?, because that
is set on the second network adapter manually, right?
Question 2: Also, what's this about going into the TCP/IP properties
of the one of the network adapters and adding another IP under
Advanced? Do I need to do this, and if so, on which adapter and what
IP's am I adding?
Question 3: I'm seeing some tutorials that talk about setting the LAN
2 (STATIC) to 10.0.0.1 for Server 1 and 10.0.0.2 for Server 2. Do I
need to do this? And if so, then how would I manually connect to a
specific server using it's static IP if the second network adapter is
set to use the 10.0.0.x number? And also, why the 10x number? Why
can't I use my static IP on this adapter?
Thanks so much, I really appreciate any time you spend helping to
answer my questions!
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