Difference between Win 2000 family members

1
Difference between Win 2000 family members

• Common OS functions
• No Disk Fault-tolerance
• No Advanced Network Management functions

2
Clustering

• Technique for providing uninterrupted service
  (even in case of hardware/software failure)
• Combining two or more servers into one virtual
  server
• Services installed on external storage
• Users connect to the virtual server (167.10.11.5
  in illustration)
• One of the clustered servers provides the service
  at a time

3
Load Balancing

• Load balancing Distributing the load among
  multiple computers
• No External disk containing services to be
  provided
• Multiple independent servers configure to
  participate in the load balancing
• Same service with the same content on each server
• Users connect to the virtual server (167.10.11.5
  in illustration)
• Users requests are redirected to one server at a
  time so that the load is distributed among all
  the servers