is AD required to LB IIS6 ?

Morning,

Do i need to install Active Direcorty (a DC) to load balance IIS6 web sites
?

Assuming i plonk hardware infront of the servers to facilitae the load
balancing.

Thanks
Scott

Scooter
Fri Jul 25 13:09:38 CDT 2008

I'm no expert in all the ins and outs of AD and IIS but it somewhat
depends on the application I would say. I know I've load balanced an
IIS 6 box using WLBS across 5 servers and we weren't using active
directory. But the application made no use of any windows accounts,
it was all application based logons served from a database. I also
used a Citrix Netscaler to load balance between 3 IIS 6 boxes but they
weren't hosting an end-user application, just marketing fluff.

To give a better response I would say you need to describe your
application in more detail.


On Jul 24, 3:39=A0am, "Scott" <scott_lo...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Morning,
>
> Do i need to install Active Direcorty (a DC) to load balance IIS6 web sit=
es
> ?
>
> Assuming i plonk hardware infront of the servers to facilitae the load
> balancing.
>
> Thanks
> Scott