Hi @bbbm ,
Q1. Assuming both of my servers are roughly equal, is there any reason not to select load balancing?
When the load balancing option is enabled, traffic will be evenly distributed among the gateways in the cluster. The purpose of this is to ensure that the cluster does not become overloaded and cause a failure.
Offline gateway within a cluster will impact performance negatively. So if a gateway is offline and you are using Load balancing, you should either remove or disable it because you are distributing the load among all active gateways in that cluster. If one gateway is offline in the cluster there will be performance issues.
So you have to choose whether to turn on this option according to the actual situation.
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Q2. When installing the 2nd gateway in the cluster, I choose setup a new data gateway in install / choose the cluster. For recovery key, do I give it the recoery key from the 1st gateway?
Yes. After testing, you need to enter the same recovery key. When a different recovery key is entered, an error is reported.
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