A Delicate Balance
This article, on load-balancing, contains lots of excellent information on the subject, and includes several references to NTAP's products, and those of their competition.
In the print issue, at the end of the article, on page 69, is a nice full page advertisement by NetworkAppliance.
Steve
A Delicate Balance
Load-balancing switches and routers may be a
good option if your company needs the kind of
scalability that clustering doesn't offer yet
By Logan Harbaugh
It's an axiom in the PC server world that you can never have too
much capacity. Disk space, memory, and available processing
power have a way of disappearing faster than even experienced
administrators count on. Applications such as Web servers, File
Transfer Protocol servers, and database servers can quickly
expand beyond the limits of the Intel platform or any single platform.
One way to surpass the limitations of a single server is clustering.
Unfortunately, clustering on the Intel platform, using network
operating systems such as Windows NT Server and NetWare, is
not yet scalable. The two-node clusters offered on these platforms
can't handle more of a load than a single server--instead, they offer
failover to allow applications on a failed server to move over to the
other server.
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