Load Balancing Central Administration

Ben Curry from Mindsharp says there's no need for multiple instances of Central Admin on a farm, because it's easy to construct one on a working node if the regular one fails.

------ Forwarded Message
From: "Benjamin D. Curry"
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:23:21 -0500
To: "sharepointdiscussions@yahoogroups.com"
Subject: RE: [sharepointdiscussions] Load Balancing Central Administration

by executing " "c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server
extensions\12\bin\psconfig.exe" -cmd adminvs -provision -port 12345
-windowsauthprovider onlyusentlm" on any server in the farm, you are 2
minutes from having Central Admin on any server farm member. So, I generally
only have it on one server in the farm.

hth,

Ben Curry, CISSP, SharePoint Server MVP
Mindsharp
http://mindsharpblogs.com/ben

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Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 2:52 PM
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Subject: [sharepointdiscussions] Load Balancing Central Administration


So I have read a couple of articles that say you cannot load balance
Central Administration. Is this really the case? If so, if I lose my
Central Administraion server are there any better ways to have
redundancy then manually moving it to another server?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated

Thanks
Matt