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Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

By : EDRICK GOAD
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

By: EDRICK GOAD

Overview of this book

Automating server tasks allows administrators to repeatedly perform the same, or similar, tasks over and over again. With PowerShell scripts, you can automate server tasks and reduce manual input, allowing you to focus on more important tasks. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will show several ways for a Windows administrator to automate and streamline his/her job. Learn how to automate server tasks to ease your day-to-day operations, generate performance and configuration reports, and troubleshoot and resolve critical problems. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will introduce you to the advantages of using Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell. Each recipe is a building block that can easily be combined to provide larger and more useful scripts to automate your systems. The recipes are packed with examples and real world experience to make the job of managing and administrating Windows servers easier. The book begins with automation of common Windows Networking components such as AD, DHCP, DNS, and PKI, managing Hyper-V, and backing up the server environment. By the end of the book you will be able to use PowerShell scripts to automate tasks such as performance monitoring, reporting, analyzing the environment to match best practices, and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Monitoring load balancing across NLB nodes


Once an NLB cluster is configured and running, one of the questions that is asked is why one host is working harder than another, or why one node has all the connections and the other has none. Normally, these questions are resolved by modifying the Affinity settings.

At its base, NLB balances traffic between different nodes in a cluster based on the total number of connections to each node. This information is then combined with the cluster's Affinity settings to group source hosts and networks onto the same node.

This recipe will cover the basic performance counters needed to identify if NLB is working and balancing load correctly.

Getting ready

In this recipe we will be working with the NLB configuration created in the prior recipe. In this case the cluster consists of only two nodes, but in production environments this can grow much larger.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to monitor load balancing across NLB nodes:

  1. View the status of...