From the course: Windows Server 2016: High Availability
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Configuring cluster operation mode - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2016: High Availability
Configuring cluster operation mode
- In the previous video, we discussed how to set up a network Load Balance Cluster. And during that setup we had a couple of options that I sort of skipped through at the time but promised to discuss more in detail later. And that was the Unicast mode and the Multicast mode. Cluster Operation Mode is an algorithm that has to do with the way packets are sent and received to various different computers that make the request. And you have these two options, Unicast and Multicast. And there are different reasons for choosing one over the other. On every network card there is a MAC Address. That is the physical address, media access control address, that is burned into the network card. Now in a Cluster, there is also going to be a MAC address that we can have, which is not physical but more logical that is just applied to the Cluster itself. And so we use Unicast or Multicast to decide how we want this done. So if we choose Unicast, we want to do this in most cases, but don't select this…
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