B2B... Business to business. Not a buzzword, really, just basic business economics. Round robbin DNS is a kludge at best without a bit of hacking. Real load balancing solutions provide much more peace of mind. But round robbin is cheaper, I'll give you that. Oh, and you seem to be missing the point of multiple NICs. It's not really for NIC failure, although that is a added benefit. It's for upstream switch failure. Each server has multiple NICs going to multiple access switches (Cisco terminology), going to multiple distribution switches, etc... Remember, servers aren't the only thing to think about when building a redundant network.
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I thought the consultant thought of redundant access switches (to use Cisco terminology). With multiple NICs in each server (each with the same IP) going to multiple access switches, each access switch going to multiple distribution switches, etc... the probability of network outage due to switch failure is reduced.
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B2B... Business to business. Not a buzzword, really, just basic business economics. Round robbin DNS is a kludge at best without a bit of hacking. Real load balancing solutions provide much more peace of mind. But round robbin is cheaper, I'll give you that. Oh, and you seem to be missing the point of multiple NICs. It's not really for NIC failure, although that is a added benefit. It's for upstream switch failure. Each server has multiple NICs going to multiple access switches (Cisco terminology), going to multiple distribution switches, etc... Remember, servers aren't the only thing to think about when building a redundant network.
I thought the consultant thought of redundant access switches (to use Cisco terminology). With multiple NICs in each server (each with the same IP) going to multiple access switches, each access switch going to multiple distribution switches, etc... the probability of network outage due to switch failure is reduced.