Certainly, Integrated Load Balancer (ILB) is one of the most attractive features of Oracle Solaris 11 because it provides network layer 3 and 4 with the load balance service. Basically, when a client requires a resource from an application (for example, a web server), the ILB framework decides which backend host (for example, web server A or B) will attend the request. Therefore, the main role of ILB is to decide to which backend server (for example, the Apache web server) the request will be forwarded. ILB supports two work methods in Oracle Solaris 11: Direct Server Return (DSR) and Network Address Translate (NAT). In both cases, the ILB framework uses one of four algorithms:
Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook
By :
Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook
By:
Overview of this book
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
IPS and Boot Environments
ZFS
Networking
Zones
Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services
Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server
Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges
Administering and Monitoring Processes
Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance
Index
Customer Reviews