[THIN] Re: win2k, iis and nfuse servers

From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:25:19 +0100
Comments inline...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Lilley [mailto:Brian.Lilley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 04 September 2003 15:43
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] win2k, iis and nfuse servers
> 
> hi all
> 
> We are building a shiney new Citrix farm on a Dell blade...  
> there are currently 24 blades in the farm...
> 
> As the farm is a pilot project, we have been asked to ensure 
> that we spread out server functions across all the blades.  I 
> was reluctant to do this because of the waste in compute 
> power, but have a gun against my head..still there you go..
> 
> So, I am forced to dedicate two of the blades as a DC and DNS 
> boxes, and a further two servers as blanced web- Nfuse 
> servers... which are to be load balanced...
> 
> My questions are these.. 
> 
> A) if I build the Nfuse servers with  win2k advanced server, 
> IIS and chuck on Nfuse...

Are you using advanced server purely for NLB?

> would I, at a later date, be able 
> to install Metaframe XP (which requires server drive 
> remapping),

When you say "requires" - is that because your user environment requires
it? Because it's not an automatic thing. I've never remapped the
Winframe / Metaframe server drives - simply because I've never needed
to.

> and expect IIS to continue to work under new 
> drive mappings??  I guess it wouldn't be too much hastle to 
> reinstall IIS and nfuse anyway?? would it.. am I missing something?

Personally, I'd just have the IIS / NFuse server(s) just doing that, not
being Metaframe servers, so wouldn't install it on them. Why are you
considering this? Is it a must? A question of there only being so much
hardware available?

> B) I'm not to sure how the advanced windows 2000 server 
> network load balancing works with IIS?  i.e. are the initial 
> http requests load balanced? does it present a single ip 
> address to the network or do the boxes have separate ip 
> addresses?

A "virtual" IP address is used for connectivity. The load balancing
isn't as sophisticated as that in XPa (or above) though.

> If the win2k advanced server load balancing does 
> present a single ip address, how would this work with Citrix 
> metaframe servers should I install Xp onto these IIS servers 
> at the later date?

Why?

> C)why is the sky blue?

Why do you ask? ;-)

> D)what is the average wind velocity of a ladden swallow?

0. (you said wind...)

Neil

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