Hi
Has anyone got any experience of virtualising Windows Load Balancing service?
I am trying to virtualise one on the nodes of a two node WLB cluster. The cluster is load balancing Outlook Web Access.
I need to vitualise a server that is running one node of the cluster but I will leaving the other node as a physical server.
I am using VMware server v1.0.4 and have used vmware converter to take an image of my WLB node but when I try to start it up the WLB it doesn't seem to want to start. I think this is probably related to the nic config. BTW I am only doing this until I can virtualise my whole environment next year with VI3.
Has anyone tried a migration of WLB?
Any experience/comments would be great.
thanks
Russell.
How are you doing your WLB via Mulitcast or Unicast?
Kind Regards
Tom,
multicast
Have a read of the following posts and blogs
www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=29939
blogs.vislab.usyd.edu.au/index.php/VNCProxy/2007/05/23/multicast_aamp_vmware
blog.baeke.info/blog/_archives/2006/2/21/1775587.html
This one is specific to Vmware Server
communities.vmware.com/thread/37402
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Kind Regards
Tom,
HI Tom,
Unless I am missing the point (which is quite possible) most of the documentation talks of creating a new NLB cluster, I have a cluster that I wish to migrate from physical to virtual.
So far I have used I have used the vmware p2v converter to take an image of the server I want to move and I have tried to start this up on another box but the config of NLB all looks wrong, when I look at the network card settings it is like NLB is disabled. I think this is because the NLB settings that have been migrated are assigned to the old nic and now I have an AMD virtual nic. Any pointers on how I should configure the VM so that my old nic settings come across ok? When I tried to enable NLB on the AMD virtual nic I got a message to say something along the lines of "You already have NLB installed on the hidden nic XXX, do you wish to continue? I will try it again and get the full error if this helps
thanks
Russell.
Go into Device Manager and remove missing hardware "View...Show Hidden Devices" Then try to configure WLBS on the new secondary NICs.