[Instructorwe're going to test out
the load balancing that we configured
Just a quick reminder of where we are.
This server is not a web server.
It's not participating in the cluster.
that we use to configure the load balancing.
So here in my web browser,
I can see the website for Web Server Two.
They both work.
Next I'm going to enter the virtual IP address
that's been assigned to the cluster.
And as I hit Enter, it does bring up a site on the server
that I was sent to by the load balancer.
Now, because I'm only testing this from one machine,
and I'm not running an environment
that will really put a load on these servers,
I can refresh this all day long
and not be sent to the other machine.
But there is another way
to make sure that this cluster is working.
And that is to test out the fault tolerance feature.
{#3What I need to do is disconnect Web Server Two
from the network and see if this virtual IP
will automatically bring up the other website.
So here we are in the Hyper-V Manager. !
And this is the quickest way I know "
to unplug one of my web servers. #
I'm going to select it. $
And in the Settings Options, %
AI'm going to simply plug this adapter into no switch at all. &
And after I apply that, '
4:Web Server Two is no longer plugged into the network, (
simulating that server being taken down. )
Now, if I refresh that virtual IP address, *
it automatically loads the other server, +
proving that our cluster is functioning. ,
North-south load balancing is probably -
the most easily-recognized type of load balancing, .
because it involves communication /
B"between a client and a server. 0
And, in the next segment, we're going to take a look 1
at load balancing traffic that begins and ends 2