Hyper-V: Web servers in VM's. Load Balancing and Failover?

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Looking to learn about said topics. I have a box with a Q9400, 6GB ram, and a few hard drives. Currently, I have Server 08 R2 installed with WHS as the only guest. I'd like to set up a few VM's running Server 08 R2. I also want to know of a way to set up some sort of load balancing system, so I can take one of the VM's down for maintenance and direct all traffic to the other VM's.

What should I look in to? How does the load balancer know how to point to the other servers? IP? I think the load balancer could probably be any format. Just as long as the OS can be installed in Hyper-v

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I have used haproxy as a load balancing web frontend before. pfSense also includes an inbound load balancer. You can use Apache in reverse proxy mode. You can even just use DNS round robin with a low TTL. There's probably several 'Windows Way' options as well (cluster services should at least allow the failover you want), and plenty of other ways to do it on any platform.
 
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