How does Microsoft Cluster Server work with Windows NT Load Balancing Service?
Windows NT load balancing service is fully complementary to Microsoft Cluster Server. Microsoft Clustering Service provides a non-stop reliable platform for data base, messaging and related application services through fail-over clustering for two nodes. Windows NT Load Balancing Service balances and distributes client connections (TCP/IP connections) over multiple servers. In a three tier model, MSCS handles the application layer and the data layer, while the Convoy or Windows NT Load Balancing Service is focused on handling the front end connections. When used together, Microsoft Cluster Server and Windows NT Load Balancing Service provide customers with a highly scalable, reliable and available system. This is an industry leading way to combine transactional systems with a web-based front end, and to deliver the scale, availability and robustness demanded by enterprise class customers.
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