You are the network administrator for your company. All servers run Windows Server 2003. The network contains two Web servers named Server1 and Server2 and three application servers named Server3, Server4, and Server5. All five servers have similar hardware. The servers are configured as Network Load Balancing clusters, as shown in the exhibit.
A Web services application hosted on Server1 and Server2 communicates to application components hosted on Server3, Server4, and Server5 by using the IP address 10.1.20.11. The application is designed to be stateless. The Network Load Balancing settings for each server are listed in the following table.
Users report that response time to the Web services application is slow. You investigate the performance of each server and observe the information listed in the following table.
You need to improve the response time of the application. What should you do?
A.
Modify the Web services application to access the components on the application servers by using the IP address 10.1.10.11.
B.
Modify the Network Load Balancing host priorities for Server4 and Server5 to be 1.
C.
Modify the Network Load Balancing host priority for Server2 to be 1.
D.
Modify the Network Load Balancing affinity setting for Server3, Server4, and Server5 to be None.
E.
Modify the Network Load Balancing affinity setting for Server1 and Server2 to be None.