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W2K Network Load Balancing

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by skp10

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Can I use Windows Network Load Balancing without having a clustered environment. I want to load balance between two Oracle application servers, however the application I am accessing is not yet cluster aware.

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by dont-bother

According to Microsoft's article -
"How Load Balancing Works" -
http://search.microsoft.com/gomsuri.asp?n=4&c=rp_Results&siteid=us/products/windows/windows2000&target=http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/distrib/dsdc_cls_inpw.asp

Load balancing is 'just a driver' added to a 'clustered machine', so from everything I've read - (go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/ and do a search for load balancing) there are several pertinent articles. From what I've read I'd say no, you can't use 'load balancing' without at least two clustered machines.

I've read something about this in the past while researching ASP pages. I do know you CAN simulate a SQL Server load-balancing scenerio using ASP, (just can't find the tutorial right now).

I'd try some searches via MSN/Google/Yahoo/DMOZ for 'Load Balancing' or 'Load Balancing SQL'

Since I know you can simulate the load-balancing for SQL Server non-clustered apps, I couldn't imagine why the same principles couldn't apply to your Oracle non-clustered app.

Good Luck

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