[THIN] FW: Re: XPE Load Balancing
- From: Jeff Rapp <JeffR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'Thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <Thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:24:41 -0400
Dave,
This does not mean that you can't have 2 or more NICs and segment them. This
can still be done.
Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boatman, Dave [mailto:Dave.Boatman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 10:07 AM
> To: Jeff Rapp
> Subject: RE: [THIN] Re: XPE Load Balancing
>
>
> Jeff,
>
> Thanks for the reply. This was just what I was after. I'm a
> bit saddened to learn that everything goes over the one NIC.
> I've been segmenting off my NLB servers on a different
> physical network (a hub off of one of the switches port)to
> cut down on the traffic which has increased the speed of the
> application...Ho hum.. back to the drawing board.
>
>
>
> Dave Boatman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Rapp [mailto:JeffR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 28 June 2002 12:55
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: XPE Load Balancing
>
> Good Morning Dave,
>
> Well for me anyway, not morning for you. You can use 1 nic
> only. The load balancing in Citrix is different in than in
> NLB, when you connect to a farm the load of each server is
> determined and you are directed to the server with the least
> load. Each server has it's own IP address there is no need to
> have the "phantom" address as with NLB.
>
> HTH,
>
> Jeff
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Boatman, Dave [mailto:Dave.Boatman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 4:58 AM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] XPE Load Balancing
> >
> >
> > Thanks to the guys who replied about MF. I could with some feed back
> > about XPe though.
> >
> > When you load balance over XPe is it recommended that you have 2
> > NIC's, like NLB - i.e. one for the nlb and one for normal network
> > traffic.. or does the load balancing on XPe only really function
> > over the one NIC - so load balancing and network traffic are shared
> > over the same NIC. I do realise that XPe has more functionality ie.
> > Memory, CPU and network balancing but, I'm interested to see if I
> > should use the 2nd NIC or if it will cause me more issues ?. This
> > will be for a large farm (W2K AD)- possibly getting up to 50/60
> > citrix servers with a large SQL cluster(SAN based)behind it. The
> > farm will run a in-house written application.
> >
> > Dave Boatman
> >
> >
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