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Server Load Balancing In Today's Web-enabled Enterprises
White Papers This document examines the role Server Load Balancing (SLB) and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) serves in today's enterprises running Web-based applications and how Web switches can provide an effective solution to manage and improve server...
[June 25, 2007, 0:00]
Enhancing Web User Experience With Global Server Load Balancing
White Papers Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) allows web hosters, portals and enterprises to distribute content and services geographically. Global server load balancing is explained here in the context of HTTP and the World Wide Web but is by no means...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Catalyst 6000 Family Accelerated Server Load Balancing
White Papers To explain how accelerated SLB works in the Catalyst 6000 family, this paper provides an overview of the Catalyst 6000 family and its architecture, and then discusses traditional DNS methods of load-balancing and its shortcomings.
[January 6, 2004, 23:00]
Network Load Balancing: Configuration Best Practices For Windows 2000 And Windows Server 2003
White Papers While Network Load Balancing uses Level 2 Multicast for the delivery of packets, Cisco's interpretation of the RFCs is that Multicast is for IP Multicast. Some routers require a static ARP entry because they do not support the resolution of unicast...
[October 7, 2006, 0:00]
Load Balancing And Offloading Static Web Content For SAS9 Web Applications With Apache And BEA WebLogic
White Papers The Web tier is a critical component of the SAS BI (Business Intelligence) Server architecture. This paper focuses on two of the SAS BI Server Web applications, SAS Information Delivery Portal and SAS Web Report Studio, discusses which parts of...
[December 25, 2006, 23:00]
Load Balancing
White Papers Cisco LocalDirector now leads the market for distributing traffic across local servers because of its advanced load-balancing technology, predictable scalability, and features for high availability, server management, and security.
[September 11, 2003, 0:00]
MS Windows NT Load Balancing Service Whitepaper
White Papers Microsoft Windows NT Load Balancing Service (WLBS), a feature of Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition, provides load balancing and clustering for mission critical enterprise-class applications. WLBS also provides multihomed server and rolling...
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
Network Load Balancing
White Papers What was called the Windows Load Balancing Service in Windows NT 4.0 is now known as Network Load Balancing in Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. This white paper provides an overview of the Network Load...
[November 18, 2003, 23:00]
Network Load Balancing Technical Overview
White Papers Network Load Balancing, a clustering technology included in the Windows® 2000 Advanced Server and Datacenter Server operating systems, enhances the scalability and availability of mission-critical, TCP/IP-based services, such as Web, Terminal...
[June 22, 2007, 0:00]
Microsoft Cluster Service Or Network Load Balancing?
News The first of my recent articles on Windows clustering prompted a member to ask about the differences between the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) and Microsoft's other clustering technology, network load balancing (NLB).
[November 7, 2002, 15:28]
Microsoft Tweaks Windows 2000
News He says Microsoft will still deliver, as promised, Advanced Server and Datacentre, the network load balancing technology based on the WLBS product Microsoft acquired when it bought Valence Research last year.
[September 16, 1999, 9:08]
Technical Overview Of Clustering In Windows Server 2003
White Papers Some of the areas covered in the paper are installation, integration, Network Load Balancing, and the new Network Load Balancing Manager. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition now supports 8-node clusters (was two), and Windows Server...
[March 23, 2004, 23:00]
Building A Stable Infrastructure For Growth
News Load balancing software is included in all editions of Windows Server 2003, even the low-cost Web Edition (it wasn't included in the Standard edition of Windows 2000 Server). Note that some server applications are not compatible with load balancing.
[August 9, 2005, 11:45]
Dual NICs For Niftier Networking
News Intel, for example, offers a teaming utility for its Pro 100 Intelligent Server adapter to support load balancing and fault tolerance across multiple NICs. Another similar hardware-specific solution is Cisco Fast EtherChannel, which provides fault...
[July 23, 2002, 8:32]
MS, Sun, Linux Vendors Sell To Power Users
News Datacentre Server will support two and four-node clusters, up to 64 GB of memory, 32-CPU systems and network load balancing, Microsoft has said. SteelEye officials claim LifeKeeper for Linux will help make Linux synonymous with high availability...
[June 22, 2000, 9:12]
TeleWest To Move To Zeus
News It is also capitalising on fears of the insecurity of Microsoft's IIS server to sell Zeus as a load balancing firewall for IIS server farms. Load balancing has been brought out as an add-on to Zeus 4.0, letting them act as a firewall, repelling DOS...
[November 14, 2001, 14:29]
Testing Stateful Networking Devices For Web Applications
White Papers Server Load Balancing" or Web Traffic Management. But most important is to construct test scenarios that test performance against real world conditions including server load, a realistic mix of file sizes, relevant metrics and meaningful results.
[February 9, 2004, 23:00]
Migrating From The Cisco LocalDirector 400 Series To The Cisco CSS 11500 Series Content Services Switch
White Papers Although the Cisco LocalDirector 400 Series and Cisco CSS 11500 Series both offer server load balancing (SLB) features, there are several differences between the two devices. The Cisco LocalDirector offers load balancing based on Layer 4...
[September 9, 2004, 0:00]
Windows NT Load Balancing Service (WLBS) Technical Overview
White Papers Microsoft® Windows NT® Load Balancing Service (WLBS), a feature of Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition, provides scalability and high availability to enterprise-wide TCP/IP services, such as Web, proxy, Virtual Private Networking (VPN), and...
[November 17, 2003, 23:00]
Introducing Windows 2000 Clustering Technologies
White Papers By deploying Network Load Balancing across a front-end Web server farm, and clustering back-end line-of-business applications such as databases with Cluster service, you can gain all the benefits of near-linear scalability with no server or...
[November 18, 2003, 23:00]
