Chapter 1 - Overview Of Load Balancing - Avaya P330 User Manual

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Avaya P330 Load Balancing Manager User Guide
Overview of Load Balancing
This section describes load balancing and includes the following topics:
• What is Load Balancing - A general overview of load balancing.
• Load Balancing Elements - A description of the conceptual
load balancing elements.
• Firewall Load Balancing (FWLB) - An overview of Firewall
Load Balancing, including descriptions and configuration
examples for routing and bridging firewalls.
• Server Load Balancing (SLB) - An overview of Server Load
Balancing, including descriptions and examples of SLB with Full
and Half Network Address Translation (NAT).
• Application Redirection (AR) - An overview and description
of Application Redirection, including a description of Cache
Redirection.
• Combination of Applications - A description of how to
combine more than one load balancing application.
• Load Balancing Metrics - A description of the various metrics
used to direct traffic to different Real Servers.
• Health Check - A description of how health checks are
performed by the load balancer.
• Persistency - A description of session and client persistency and
how they are sustained.
• Additional Persistency Schemes - A description of backup
Real Servers and backup Real Server Groups.
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