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What does NLB stand for?
Network Load Balancing
What is a server cluster?
A group of servers with a common application or role
What is NLB used for?
Managing traffic flow and ensuring service availability
How is load balancing defined?
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What role is NLB most often used with?
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How can NLB be installed using PowerShell?
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What does NLB help ensure during spikes in demand?
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What is the primary purpose of NLB?
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What type of servers can be grouped in a cluster for load balancing?
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What is not a suitable candidate for server clustering?
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What is the industry technology NLB considered as?
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What does NLB help ensure during a server outage?
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What is the purpose of load balancing?
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What is the function of a load balancer?
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What is the advantage of a hardware load balancer over a software load balancer?
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What is the purpose of round robin load balancing method?
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What is the main benefit of a hardware load balancer?
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How does load balancing reduce application/service downtime?
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What is the purpose of least connections load balancing method?
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What is the main benefit of a software load balancer?
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How does load balancing ensure scalability?
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What is the function of an intelligent round robin load balancing method?
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What is the purpose of network load balancing?
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What is the main disadvantage of using the NLB feature over a dedicated load balancer?
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NLB is only a server feature and not an industry technology
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A server cluster can be a mix of different application or role servers
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PowerShell cannot be used to administer the installation of NLB
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NLB is used for managing traffic flow and ensuring that services remain available and accessible
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Load Balancing groups physical servers only into a cluster for demand distribution
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NLB is primarily used with IIS
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NLB stands for Network Load Balancing
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NLB is not meant to facilitate a number of benefits
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NLB can help ensure that services remain available during a server outage
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NLB is not used for ensuring services remain available during spikes in demand
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NLB can be installed using the PowerShell command 'Install-WindowsFeature NLB IncludeManagementTools'
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A server cluster is simply a number of servers that are grouped by a common application or role
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Round Robin load balancing method allocates requests in a weighted order based on certain criteria.
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Hardware load balancers are not optimized for load balancing and traffic distribution.
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Software load balancers are typically used in virtual deployments.
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Least Connections load balancing method determines what server is most utilized.
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A Dedicated Load Balancer offers less robust features compared to the Windows NLB.
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A single Web Server is not limited in capacity.
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Load Balancing can help in reducing application/service downtime by routing requests to a less-utilized server.
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A hardware load balancer is much like a piece of networking equipment, allowing for physical interfaces to be connected.
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Network Load Balancers are known for their limited feature set.
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Load Balancing ensures resilience and uptime during failures by monitoring server status and routing traffic accordingly.
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Load Balancers typically come in only one flavor, either software or hardware.
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Microsoft Network Load Balancer (NLB) is not suitable for load balancing and traffic distribution.
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Explain the function of a hardware load balancer and list its benefits compared to a software load balancer.
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Describe the round robin load balancing method and its purpose.
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What is the primary function of a software load balancer and what makes it different from a hardware load balancer?
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Explain the intelligent round robin load balancing method and its significance.
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What are the benefits of using a hardware load balancer over a software load balancer?
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Describe the least connections load balancing method and its purpose.
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Differentiate between hardware load balancers and software load balancers in terms of their implementations and benefits.
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Explain the purpose of load balancing and its significance in managing server clusters.
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What are the disadvantages of using the NLB feature over a dedicated load balancer?
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How does load balancing help in reducing application/service downtime and ensuring scalability?
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Explain the purpose of network load balancing and its role in maintaining high availability during failures.
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What are the different methods of load balancing and how do they contribute to managing server clusters effectively?
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What is NLB used for?
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What is a server cluster?
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What is the purpose of load balancing?
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How does load balancing work?
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What is NLB?
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What is the industry technology NLB considered as?
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What is the main benefit of a hardware load balancer?
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What is the main disadvantage of using the NLB feature over a dedicated load balancer?
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How Load Balancing ensures resilience and uptime during failures?
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What is the advantage of a hardware load balancer over a software load balancer?
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What is the primary purpose of NLB?
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What does NLB help ensure during spikes in demand?
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NLB stands for Network Load Balancing and is not only a server feature, but a industry technology (general term, we will focus on this)
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A server cluster is simply a ______ of servers that are grouped by a common application or role. This can be a web server, a database server, a mail server, but not a mix
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NLB is used for managing traffic flow, and ensuring that services ______ available and accessible. NLB can help ensure: Your services ______ available during spikes in demand
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Load Balancing, in a nutshell, groups physical, or virtual ______ into a cluster, which is able to distribute demand
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NLB is used for managing traffic flow, and ensuring that services remain available and accessible. NLB can help ensure: Your services remain online during a server ______ (partial cluster ______)
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NLB can help ensure that ______ remain available during a server outage
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NLB is a Server Feature that is installed after a role. The NLB is meant to facilitate a number of benefits and is most often used with IIS (which we will explore in a later section)
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NLB can help ensure that services remain available during spikes in ______
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Load balancing essentially groups servers together, by role, to ensure that these groups – known as Server Clusters, are able to act as one single entity
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The benefit of a hardware load balancer is that they are optimized for one task – load balancing. Specialty software and hardware comprise this unit, in order to allow for maximum and optimal traffic flow
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A ______ is much like a piece of networking equipment – much like a router or a switch. It typically allows for physical interfaces to be connected, allowing you to leverage high performance
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Software LBs are just that – and are typically used in virtual deployments. They route traffic based on criteria, and target server clusters. They are usually not as high performance as hardware-based LBs, but benefit from easier deployment and scale much easier
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This load balancing method is the simplest one of all – the server allocates requests in the order which they are received. For example, we have 3 servers in our cluster, and 6 client requests, each new request would go to a new server
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While Microsoft includes a ______ – it is limited in its feature set. There are numerous disadvantages to using the NLB Feature, over a dedicated Load Balancer. A Dedicated Load Balancer works the same way as Windows NLB, however offers far more robust and can perform a significant number of additional features
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To ensure ______ – By either routing requests to different geographical areas, or by giving you the flexibility to increase your service capacity by adding servers when the need to grow surfaces
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Load Balancing, as stated, groups servers together, by role, to ensure that these groups – known as Server Clusters, are able to act as one single entity
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Not all requests and connections last the same time – think of a website, some users may be on a website longer than others. This may mean that one server is getting more requests than another. ______ will determine what server is least utilized
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______ typically come in two flavors – software and hardware, both of these do the same thing (route and distribute traffic according to set parameters), however are different in their implementations
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A single Web Server, no matter how powerful, is still limited in capacity. How do we overcome multiple websites mapped to a single IP address. How do we handle an ______ by adding more servers. How do we ensure resilience and uptime during failures, planned or unplanned maintenance. The answer: Load Balancing
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While this can be known by many names (weighted, etc) – the gist of it is that requests are given a weight, priority or other criteria. This allows certain requests to prioritize a certain server
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