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Multicast MS NLB

Hi There,

I see from this KB http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=100677... that there are quite a lot of limitations with using unicast NLB with VMWARE. The biggest one for me being that "All members of the NLB cluster must be running on the same ESX host". Does this limitation, or any other for that matter, exist when using multicast NLB?

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C

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Does this limitation, or any other for that matter, exist when using multicast NLB?

No - multicast is by far the easiest way to do this. I would recommend avoiding unicast if at all possible.

Brian Atkinson | vExpert | VMTN Moderator | Author of "VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide: VCP-550" | @vmroyale | http://vmroyale.com

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Does this limitation, or any other for that matter, exist when using multicast NLB?

No - multicast is by far the easiest way to do this. I would recommend avoiding unicast if at all possible.

Brian Atkinson | vExpert | VMTN Moderator | Author of "VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide: VCP-550" | @vmroyale | http://vmroyale.com
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many thanks.

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