In general when you are load balancing a cluster you can evenly spread the connections through the cluster and you get pretty consistent and even load balancing. However with some applications such as RDS ( Microsoft Terminal Servers ), you can get very high load from just a few users doing heavy work. The solution to this is to use some kind of server load feedback agent
Load balancing Microsoft Print Server
Microsoft print server provides a great way to share printers throughout your organisation, but when the print server service falls over, the phone quickly starts to ring. By adding a load balancer and a second print server configured with the same print queues , you’ll quickly have a load balanced and resillient printing infrastructure for
Enabling SNAT in LVS (xt_ipvs) and iptables
Just a brief guide on how to enable SNAT in LVS with iptables. Firstly this is all very bleeding edge and as yet has not made it into the current kernel it should be in 2.6.36 with a new version of iptables released not long after that. But for those of you far to eager