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NuView aims to ease NT cluster management

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By Deni Connor
Network World, 06/14/99

uView has rolled out new software for managing clusters of Web servers based on Windows NT.

The new software lets companies better manage clusters of servers running Microsoft's Windows NT Load Balancing Services (WLBS), a technology for distributing the processing load across a group of servers.

The new software is an add-on to NuView's ClusterX, a package for managing NT server clusters running Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS). MSCS allows a group of independent servers to be managed as a single server to increase availability.

Dubbed the ClusterX for WLBS Cluster Management Module, NuView's new software simplifies the process of establishing and enforcing management policies for servers running WLBS.

Microsoft WLBS clusters are primarily used for load-balancing applications and servers running on server farms or virtual private networks, or as Web or File Transfer Protocol servers.

"NuView's ClusterX WLBS module allows dynamic load balancing among servers that share a single IP address, making it easier to scale services across the network," says James Gruener, an analyst with Aberdeen Group in Boston. "It simplifies deployment of clusters and increases their manageability."

The software can be used to address application and server failures, and improve performance, availability and scalability.

Users can discover WLBS clusters, configure server nodes and duplicate configurations among servers. The software can also be used to detect software, hardware and network faults and to create reports, audit logs and uptime statistics for service-level agreement enforcement.

ClusterX is compatible with Microsoft's ActiveX, Distributed Component Object Model and Microsoft Management Console (MMC) technologies. It is designed to work with Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Data Center when they become available.

The management software can be activated from within Internet Explorer 4.0 or MMC.

The new ClusterX module will be available in July and will cost about $1,000 per management station.

ClusterX is $2,000 per management station.

NuView: (281) 497-0620

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