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Dear Members, Customer wants to use Dynamic Disk so they can extend their volumes without restoring their data back. Is there any reason for not changing to dynamic disks ? What is your experience ? Its very rare that I have seen customers using dynamic disks ? The data on the file server is containing office data. So thats not really exiting. Please can you give me any advise whether I have to change to dynamic yes or no ? Do I have to stay away from dynamic disks ? Thanks in advance. Cheers, Shiva

Dear Mr Snrub, Thanks for your clear reply. Affinity is set to none. What do you mean with the following ? >It is vital that you use a layer 2 switch, or a layer 2 VLAN if it is a layer 3 switch. >Almost every NLB issue I have dealt with has been a switch/network problem. You mean the problem is related to the network and not to the nodes. I didnt approach the problem this way. Anyway I'm honder procent sure its a cisco device. I'm not sure but I think its a swich. Only I'm not sure which type. I will check this I will run the "wlbs query" Iwant aware of this utility at that time. Hope to hear from you soon. Its hard to find someone with experience on this topic. Thanks a lot. Best Regards, Shiva

Dear Group, I have configured Windows 2003 Network Load Balancing for my IIS application. One Cluster IP address and two physical nodes. In each node there is one Network adapter. The NLB cluster configured with multi cast and filtering is set to one. NLB is configured for port 80. The Cluster IP dares has also a hostname configured in DNS. I noticed when I stop IIS on one node my IIS application works fine. If I disable a Network Adapter on one node my IIS application doesn't understand it always. Meaning sometimes its running correctly sometimes not. I get a classic error message that my IIS is not reachable. It looks like NLB sends my IIS requests to the wrong Node because NLB does not understand one NIC is disabled. The NLB cant negotiate sufficient. I'm aware of the heartbeat between the two NLB adapters. It normally takes approximately 6,7 seconds before NLB knows one machine is down. The question is does NLB understand if I'm disabling a Network Adapter ? Is there somebody with the same experience with NLB ? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Shiva