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[sara-collins]

I'd like to know few things about 'clustering':
1. What is clustering on NT?
2. What do I gain from clustering and what do I lose when using it.
3. What is the overhead of the process.
4. Does clustering help in load balancing of several NT machines?
5. Does clustering help in load balancing of several DBs?

Answers and/or references will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.



 

[erin4fry · Accepted solution]

1. M$ wolfpack is the cluter solution
2. You spend roughly double for hardware and software (You still need 2 liscenses) but you end up with load balancing of your servers and a really redundant system.
3. Don't know, but if you have 128MB RAM, it shouldn't have much effect on performance.
4. No, Two machine limit right now
5. Yes in that the CPU and NIC is load balanced, I'm not sure if the backend DB program (sql server) knows enough to work in a load balanced situation.

[sara-collins]

Thanks , I posted your answer under question for future reference....just incase