# Windows 2008 High Availability and Load Balancing

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-2008-high-availability-and-load-balancing/5598>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 18, 2012, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-2008-high-availability-and-load-balancing/5598 "2012-12-18T10:35:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![gnguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@gnguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gnguyen)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-2008-high-availability-and-load-balancing/5598/1 "2012-12-18T10:35:47Z")

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Hi again,

Has anyone experience with Windows 2008 R2 Server HA architecture and load-balancing with Ignition ?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Michael.Stofan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.stofan/32/3342_2.png) [@Michael.Stofan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Michael.Stofan)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-2008-high-availability-and-load-balancing/5598/2 "2012-12-21T00:45:30Z")

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What information in particular are you looking for? Off the top of my head, I would say that licensing would be something to keep in mind. Your Ignition license will fail if the hardware profile reported to java changes, which may happen in a load balanced environment.

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**Author:** ![gnguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@gnguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gnguyen)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-2008-high-availability-and-load-balancing/5598/3 "2012-12-21T09:53:38Z")

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Michael,

Yes you’re right, this was one of my concerns (licensing). Other concerns may be with will it be installable ? I don’t see why not (Java is know to work on cluster environnement), but would like to have IA or other users advices.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Robert.McKenzie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/robert.mckenzie/32/4134_2.png) [@Robert.McKenzie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert.McKenzie)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-2008-high-availability-and-load-balancing/5598/4 "2012-12-26T16:42:24Z")

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Ignition will work for you without a problem. Our CDKeys allow for virtual machines to run in a hardware cluster environment.

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**Author:** ![gnguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@gnguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gnguyen)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-2008-high-availability-and-load-balancing/5598/5 "2012-12-26T17:03:01Z")

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Thank you Robert, this is a really good answer for our project !