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Understanding Load Balancers and Types

A load balancer sits between servers and the internet and routes incoming requests to available servers to optimize performance. It determines which server is available and online to handle each request, and can dynamically add or remove servers as traffic levels change. There are two main types - network server load balancers that optimize content delivery to employees/public, and line load balancers that aggregate multiple internet connections. Load balancers are implemented as hardware, virtual, or cloud-based solutions.

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Understanding Load Balancers and Types

A load balancer sits between servers and the internet and routes incoming requests to available servers to optimize performance. It determines which server is available and online to handle each request, and can dynamically add or remove servers as traffic levels change. There are two main types - network server load balancers that optimize content delivery to employees/public, and line load balancers that aggregate multiple internet connections. Load balancers are implemented as hardware, virtual, or cloud-based solutions.

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What is a load balancer?

Load balancers handle incoming requests from users for information and other services. They
sit between the servers that handle those requests and the internet. Once a request is received,
the load balancer first determines which server in a pool is available and online and then routes
the request to that server. During times of heavy loads, a load balancer can dynamically add
servers in response to spikes in traffic. Conversely, they can drop servers if demand is low.

There are two kinds of load balancers in use in corporate networks:

 Network Server Load Balancers - optimizing performance of servers delivering important


content to employees, external workers/contractors or the public
 Line Load Balancers - aggregating XDSL WAN connections

There are THREE line of implementing of load balancers in use in corporate


networks:

 Hardware Load Balancing


 Virtual Load Balancing
 Cloud Load Balancing

Primary tasks of the load balancer are:

 Delivering requests to the best network servers as quickly and efficiently as possible,
based on the chosen method of distributing network/internet traffic
 Continually checking the performance of the network servers and make decisions which
server is performing in the best way to serve the users demands

Affordable load balancers available as both virtual load balancers and hardware load
balancers.
LoadMaster supports the most popular virtual OSs including:
 VMWare
 Hyper-V
 XEN
 KVM
LoadMaster is certified by leading vendors including:

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 Microsoft
 Cisco
 Dell
 VMWare
 SAP
 Citrix

What load balancer algorithms can I use?


 Round Robin
 Weighted Round Robin
 Least Connection
 Weighted Least Connection
 Agent Based Adaptive Load Balancing
 Chained Failover (Fixed Weighted)
 Weighted Response Time
 Source IP Hash
 Software Defined Networking (SDN) Adaptive

LoadMaster  Application Delivery


 Hosting
 Customer Reviews  E-Commerce
 SDN  Healthcare
 Virtual  Education
 Hardware  Federal
 Cloud  Load Balancer Cluster
 iRules Migration Tool
 Multi-Tenant Security
 Metered Licensing
 Dell EMC ECS  Forefront TMG Replace
 OWASP Top 10
 VMware
 DirectAccess Load Balancer
Microsoft Load Balancing  Web Application Firewall (WAF)
 Azure Load Balancer  DevOps
 Windows NLB  DDoS Protection
 IIS Load Balancer  Always-on-VPN Load Balancer
 Microsoft Exchange 2016
Cloud Load Balancing
 Remote Desktop Services
 Microsoft SharePoint  Hybrid Load Balancers
 Skype for Business  Hybrid Cloud
 AWS Load Balancer (Amazon)
Load Balancer Solutions  Azure Cloud
 Nutanix
 SSL Acceleration
 VMware Cloud on AWS

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