MIG - Redundant Load Balancing

Managed Internet Gateway - draw your line in the sand

Redundant Load Balancing Load balancing is the act of distributing server requests over a pool of available servers. Redundant, means that there is no single point of failure.

• fully configurable through WMC

• feed1---------->MIG-(R)LB1------------->WebServer1
             \   /              ^          \    /
               X                |              X
             /   \              v          /    \
  feed2---------->MIG-(R)LB2------------->WebServer2

  (redundant) load balancer

• 1 or more RLB's can all talk to 2 or more web servers
• mutual heath monitoring
• floating "master" responsible for notifications
• slaves confirm master has sent notification
• transparent fail over and recovery among RLB's
• automated attack response mechanism
• true load balancing based on actual server load
• customizable load balancing algorithms

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last modified
Sat December 14 2002 09:04:00 GMT