Load Balancing for Application Server Administrators

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Source: Coyote Point Systems
Publish Date: May 2007

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The idea of load balancing is well defined in the IT world: A network device accepts traffic on behalf of a group of servers, and distributes that traffic according to load balancing algorithms and the availability of the services that the servers provide. From network administrators to server administrators to application developers, this is a generally well understood concept.

The implementation of load balancing, however, is another matter. There are often many questions regarding how load balancing is deployed, how the servers are configured, and how the overall network architecture may need to change to accommodate load balancing appliances.

The good news is that deploying a load balancer needn’t be perplexing or difficult…