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Configure Network Load Balancing for a Web Farm
Part of Windows Administration Fundamentals Topic: Essential IT
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What you'll do
In this lab the students will configure network load balancing in a network that contains two web servers.
- They will install Internet Information Services (IIS) on the web servers
- They will install load balancing using PowerShell and then they will configure the load balancer to balance network traffic to the web servers in the web farm
- The students will create custom load balancing rules and verify the traffic is being balanced according to the created rules
- ⏱ About 2 h
- Counts towards: CompTIA A+ (exams 220-1201 / 220-1202)
Roadmaps that use this lab
- CompTIA A+ (220-1201 / 220-1202) — step 3: Practise on live systems
- Security Engineer — career path — step 3: Harden Windows and Active Directory
- Security Administrator — career path — step 1: IT foundation



