Network Load Balancing (NLB) Survival Guide
This is a list of resources for NLB resources. Feel free to add relevant resources or to rearrange as needed.
Fundamentals
- Network Load Balancing - Concept and Notes
- NLB: Frequently Asked Questions for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003
- NLB 101: How NLB balances network traffic
- How Does Network Load Balancing Algorithm Works Internally
- Overview of Network Load Balancing for Windows Server 2008 R2
- What is new for NLB in Windows Server 2008R2?
- Installing Network Load Balancing (NLB) on Windows Server 2008 R2
- Top NLB questions in Windows Server 2008 R2 addressed within a week:
Designing
Deploying
- Windows Server 2008: Network Load Balancing Deployment Guide
- Windows Server 2003: Deploying Network Load Balancing
- Balancing Act: Dual-NIC Configuration with Windows Server 2008 NLB Clusters
- How NLB Hosts Converge When Connected to a Layer 2 Switch NLB
- How to deploy a Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP)-based VPN server that uses Network Load Balancing (NLB) in Windows Server 2008
Upgrading
Managing and Monitoring
- Management and Operations
- How To Configure Network Load Balancing Parameters
- Managing Network Load Balancing from the command line
- Network Load Balancing Management Pack monitors
- Network Load Balancing cmdlets in Windows PowerShell
Troubleshooting
- NLB troubleshooting overview for Windows Server 2003
- Troubleshooting Network Load Balancing Clusters (Windows Server 2008 R2)
- Unable to connect to Windows Server 2008 NLB Virtual IP Address from hosts in different subnets when NLB is in Multicast Mode
- Network Load Balancing cluster node does not successfully converge
- Servers in a Network Load Balancing (NLB) failover cluster cannot be used as print servers in Windows Server 2008
- Network Load Balancing (NLB) clients cannot connect to the Windows Server 2008 NLB cluster by using the virtual IP address when NLB is running in multicast mode
- The virtual IP address of a Windows Server 2008 NLB cluster is bound to the NetBIOS host name of a particular server or of multiple servers
- Windows Server 2008 NLB uses only the Primary Cluster Network Address
- Network Load Balancing in R2: Using ETW Tracing
Blogs
NLB and other Microsoft Products
Exchange
- Microsoft Unified Communications Load Balancer Deployment
- Understanding Load Balancing in Exchange 2010
IIS
- Configuring IIS 7.0 World Wide Web Publishing Service in a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 failover cluster
- IIS Responses to Load-Balanced Application Pool Behaviors
- Kerberos Authentication for Load Balanced Web Sites
ISA/TMG
- An update enables multicast operations for ISA Server integrated NLB
- RemoveAllNLBSettings Tool for Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Enterprise Edition
- ISA Integrated NLB - Multicast with IGMP… ISA “blocks” IGMP packets
- New in SP2: Kerberos Authentication in Load Balanced Scenarios
- Unable to Fail Over from one TMG node to another when using NLB in a Virtual Environment
- How to get NLB to work with Forefront TMG when running in Hyper-V.
- Network Load Balancing (NLB) configuration settings in Forefront TMG: to clear or not to clear?
- Understanding By-Design Behavior of ISA Server 2006: Using Kerberos Authentication for Web Proxy Requests on ISA Server 2006 with NLB
- Unable to Access Resource behind TMG after enabling NLB
Hyper-V
- Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machines generate a Stop error when NLB is configured or when the NLB cluster does not converge as expected
- Cannot access the virtual or dedicated IP address of an NLB node (Guest) running in Unicast Mode on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
Industry and other resources
VMWare
- Microsoft NLB Not Working Properly in Unicast Mode
- Sample Configuration - Network Load Balancing (NLB) Multicast mode over routed subnet - Cisco Switch Static ARP Configuration
- NLB Cluster can't route to remote subnets in multicast mode
Cisco
- Catalyst Switches for Microsoft Network Load Balancing
- Multicast Does Not Work in the Same VLAN in Catalyst Switches (Multicast traffic does not seem to pass across Catalyst switches, even in the same VLAN)