MOAC 70-412: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services

LAB 1
CONFIGURING
NETWORK LOAD
BALANCING

THIS LAB CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING EXERCISES AND ACTIVITIES:

Exercise 1.1

Installing the Network Load Balancing Feature

Exercise 1.2

Creating a Windows Server 2012 NLB Cluster

Exercise 1.3

Configuring DNS

Exercise 1.4

Configuring Cluster Properties

Exercise 1.5

Managing the Cluster Nodes

Exercise 1.6

Removing the NLB Cluster

Lab Challenge

Upgrading an NLB Cluster

Exercise 1.2

Creating a Windows Server 2012 NLB Cluster

Overview

During this exercise, you will create the NLB Cluster using
Server01 and Server02.

Completion time

15 minutes

Mindset Question:

You have a website that must be fault tolerant, so you decide to use

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Network Load Balancing. What is required to implement Network

Load Balancing?

What is the default priority?

Question
1

What is the default cluster operation mode?

Question
2

Unicast

What is the filtering mode set to?

Question
3

Multiple host

15. Take a screen shot of the Network Load Balancing Manager by pressing Alt+Prt
Scr and then paste it into your Lab 1worksheet file in the page provided by
pressing Ctrl+V.

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Adding the Second Node

7.

Take a screen shot of the Network Load Balancing Manager by pressing Alt+Prt
Scr and then paste it into your Lab 1 worksheet file in the page provided by
pressing Ctrl+V.

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Exercise 1.3

Configuring DNS

Overview

Users will need to find the clusters. Therefore, during this

exercise, you will configure DNS resource records.

Completion time

10 minutes

Mindset Question:

There are two things still missing. First, you will need to install IIS,
and deploy the websites on Server01 and Server02. So when you are
ready to go live, what are the last steps needed so that users can
reach the websites?
Pay for the top lv domain..?

Exercise 1.4

Configuring Cluster Properties

Overview

Currently, the port rules allow all TCP and UDP ports. During
this exercise, you will redefine the port rules for only the ports
that you need.

Completion time

10 minutes

Mindset Questions:

As mentioned earlier, the cluster is meant to support a website. What

ports will you need to support the websites?
TCP port 80 across all nodes, also directing all requests to TCP port 3389

What filtering mode is selected and what affinity is selected?

Question
4

Question
5

Multiple host and single

Why would you need to use single affinity?

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To maximize scale performance

Exercise 1.5

Managing the Cluster Nodes

Overview

You need to do maintenance on the nodes. At this time, you need

to stop one of the nodes, and then bring the node back online.

Completion time

5 minutes

What does drainstop do?

Question
6

2.

Block connection without terminating existing session

Take a screen shot of the Network Load Balancing Manager by pressing Alt+Prt
Scr and then paste it into your Lab 1 worksheet file in the page provided by
pressing Ctrl+V.

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What is the status of the Server01 node?

Question
7

Host is stopped

LAB REVIEW QUESTIONS

Completion
time

1.

10 minutes

In Exercise 1.1,when you installed NLB, was it a role or a feature?

Feature

2.

In Exercise 1.2,what mode (multicast or unicast) should you use if you have two
network cards?
unicast

3.

In Exercise 1.2, if you did choose to use multicast mode, what MAC addresses
are assigned to the NLB network adapter?
The original mac address and the virtual Mac address

4.

In Exercise 1.3,what is the advantage of using an alias resource record.

It is easier to remember by using alias

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5.

In Exercise 1.4,what filter mode would you select if you want one server to be
the primary web server, and the other node wait until the primary server goes
down.
Single host mode

6.

In Exercise 1.5, what would happen if you do not use drainstop to stop a node?
The session will be disconnected

Lab
Challenge

Upgrading a Cluster

Overview

To complete this challenge, you will describe how to upgrade a

cluster running on Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server
2012.

Completion time

10 minutes

You have a NLB cluster running on two servers running Windows Server 2008 R2.
What would you do to upgrade the cluster to Windows Server 2012?/
There are 2 ways to upgrade the NLB cluster, upgrade all the hosts at one time (which
brings the cluster down) or upgrade each host, one at a time. (Keep the services
running)