I have one DFSR hub server with about 80 connections to 80 remote offices.
I want to add another hub server for load balancing and redundancy, but I don't want to split the connections between the two hub servers. I don't like the idea of having to maintain\administer two different blocks of connections across two servers.
What I want is to have 2 (or possibly more) hub servers, each configured with all of the 80 some odd connections, doing load balancing with something like the NLB service. I assume this would work because the DFSR hubs could dynamically split the connections between each other and then just replicates the updates received from those connections to the other hub.
I know you can do a failover DFSR cluster, but from what I have read, a Windows failover cluster does not do load balancing. So only one node in a DFSR failover cluster is actually active at a time- is this correct? If so it doesn't seem to meet my requirements for load balancing.
I have found no docs related to setting up a NLB cluster with the DFSR service. Is this even possible\supported? If so, can someone provide info regarding a best practices way a doing this or a doc?
Thanks a lot.