Arista Fabric Integration with Microsoft Network Load Balancing
Overview This article provides a brief introduction and configuration of Microsoft NLB with Arista L2LS (without VxLAN) and L3LS VxLAN fabric setup to avoid the most common issues during the deployments. NLB Introduction The Network Load Balancing (NLB) feature distributes traffic across several servers by using the TCP/IP networking protocol. By combining two or more computers that are running applications into a single virtual cluster, NLB provides reliability and performance for web servers and other mission-critical servers. Three modes of operation in NLB Unicast All the NICs assigned to a Microsoft NLB cluster share a common MAC address. The MAC...
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