Administering an ISP Installation

Replication and Clustering in IIS 5.0

Replication consists of copying content and configuration settings from one server to another, so that both servers will be able to offer identical resources to users. You must replicate the configuration settings for all servers within the Web cluster, regardless of whether or not they share content. Content replication is unnecessary, however, if your servers share a data storage device such as a disk drive.

IIS 5.0 comes with a command-line utility for replicating the IIS 5.0 metabase from one server node to other nodes. For details about how this utility works, see the “Replication and Clustering in IIS” topic in the IIS 5.0 online product documentation.

Many clustering applications support replication of both content and configuration settings. For details, see the documentation provided with your clustering application.

See the following:

Replicating through Content Deployment
Benefits of Content Deployment
Clustering