A couple months ago we released the new Cisco Innovated Intelligent Traffic Distribution (ITD) features on NX-OS 9.3.1. In this latest addition to Nexus 9000, we introduced ITD over VXLAN and ITD with ...

At its simplest, a load balancer is a mechanism that distributes traffic across multiple destination hosts to ensure no one single host catches the full workload. A DNS load balancer, for example, ...

Guys I'm setting up network load balancing for our exchange 2003 front end servers. I've got the nlb cluster up and running using using a single nic and multicast mode. The problem comes in with ...

Cloud load balancing improves application performance and system availability by distributing incoming network traffic across ...

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

As computer hardware becomes increasingly more powerful, organizations are reaping huge cost and energy savings from replacing physical machines with virtual ones. But whether you're replacing several ...

VMware has upgraded its standalone load balancer and has integrated it with the NSX-T virtual networking and security software for private data centers and public clouds. Until the Avi acquisition, ...

Server load balancer (SLB) has become very common in network deployments, as the data & video traffic are expanding at rapid rate. There are various modes of SLB deployments today. Application load ...

The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

This chapter introduces the reader to firewall load-balancing (FWLB) concepts, technology, and designs. We will talk about motivations behind FWLB solutions, different types of firewalls, and how to ...