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by allen

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Hi everyone, I am trying to setup a primary web server and a backup web server. I want to create an automatic fail-over so when the primary web server go down, the backup server will be available immediately but it will be available only when the primary server is not available. I don’t want to do round-robin and I cannot setup Microsoft clustering server. I am looking for hardware solution such as managed switch or something similar. I appreciate if anyone has any suggestion

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by ryannsit

While Round-Robin and Clustering are the two PROPER ways to really implement this, there is a third way you can do this. Sorta.

Any server can have more than one name.

Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters

Add the value OptionalNames REG_SZ
String: [Alias].

Replace Alias with the Server name. Should be fairly, if not totally transparent. Mind you, I know this works in an AD Environment for Print/File Services... I have not yet experienced the implications of this in such an environment for a long term solution.

Best of luck,
Ryan

by allen

actualy I found product that can do the job. the product called serverIron from Foundary network. it is switch layer 2-7 that will function as load balancer. thank you for your help though

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