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Cheap Load Balancing Solution

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by michael1ra

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I?m trying to design a network for approximately 350 user, 2 servers, NAS, and a backup solution. The design has to be fully redundant as the data is quite important, hence two servers. Since I have two servers I thought it would be good if I could Load Balance between the two servers. What is the CHEAPEST way I could achieve load balancing of the two servers?

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by theswede

What kind of servers are they.
Most server now have redundant nic. It is a good Idea to patch them to two differet swiches. If you only have a chasis based switch eg cisco 6509 then patch them to two different blades. To make the the whole solutionredundant I would need more info (is the network in one location or id ther multiple swiches, are they connected over fibre) If you can give more info I would be glad to help

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