Component Load Balancing Architecture Updated: January 1, 2003
Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows
Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2 This section
discusses CLB and its key structures. Also discussed are routing
servers, designing and optimizing CLB clusters, and storage and
memory requirements. Component Load Balancing Unlike Server
cluster and NLB, which are built into the Advanced Server and
Datacenter Server editions of the Windows operating system, CLB
is a feature of Microsoft Application Center 2000. It is
designed to provide high availability and scalability for
transactional components. CLB is scalable up to eight servers
and is ideally suited to building distributed solutions. CLB
makes use of the COM+ Services supplied as part of the Windows
2000 and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. COM+ Services
provide: Enterprise functionality for transactions COM+
components use the Component Object Model (COM) and COM+
Services to specify their configuration a