Load balancing and Failover Cluster at the same time

Question

Hi,

Apologies for the multiple questions. I just want to clear my question.

We are thinking using four windows standard servers for clustering (two for load balancing and two for failover of those two load balancing at the same time), and I am wondering if that works. If so, is there any number limit for them?

Also, I received the answer "Windows Failover Cluster supports up to 64 nodes in a single cluster while Network Load Balancing supports up to 32 nodes.", and the nodes in this case means each Standard Server?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Hi,

Regarding your question, first of all, failover cluster and network load balancing cluster are two different types of clusters, it is not possible to realize the function of a single cluster to have two types of clusters, but it is possible to create multiple different types of clusters with nodes respectively, so it is still the number of limitations that you have mentioned, and the nodes in the cluster can be physical servers, virtual machines or cloud servers can be.

Best Regards,

Ian Xue

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