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Install network load balanced nodes to a cluster

Install network load balanced nodes to a cluster - Windows Server Tutorial

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Install network load balanced nodes to a cluster

- [Instructor] Network load balancing allows us to fail over to one or more network cards in case of hardware or software problems or times of maintenance. It's a great feature included in Windows Server. We need to go to Server Manager and click on add roles and features to get our new wizard to come up. Click Next until we get to the Features section. Now that we're here, we'll scroll to where it says Network Load Balancing, and we're going to check this box, and then click the Add Features option. We'll click Next and then Install. This will add a new option under our Tools menu in Server Manager, and we'll go from there to create a networking cluster. Our installation was successful. Close, go to Tools, and choose Network Load Balancing Manager, and we see the Network Load Balancing Cluster appear. We'll right click and choose to create a New Cluster. We need to add a host or multiple hosts to add into our cluster. We're going to add host1. I've renamed a couple of my network…

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