Using An Ifolder Master Server As A Load Balancer; Chapter 8, "Using An Ifolder Master Server As A Load Balancer - Novell IFOLDER 3.8 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

Using an iFolder Master Server as
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a Load Balancer
Organizations that need to distribute an equal number of users across iFolder servers need user load
balancing support. User load balancing ensures an equal amount of connections per server and
balanced data transfer across servers.
Load Balancer
Figure 8-1
Organizations that need automatic user management should provision the users soon after iFolder
server deployment. This is necessary in large organizations where user management is difficult and
provisioning existing users requires considerable administrative overhead. With the load balancing
option, the users are provisioned to the server that has fewer users provisioned so that the number of
users across the deployed iFolder servers is equalized.
This configuration ensures that the response time for every user is good and the number of
connections per server is not excessive. If some super users have large data sets, this setup does not
guarantee data load-balancing, but only guarantees user count balancing across available servers.
The following sections describe the deployment of an iFolder master server as a load balancer.
Section 8.1, "Key Benefits," on page 40
Section 8.2, "LDAP Configuration," on page 40
Section 8.3, "Scalability Parameters," on page 40
Section 8.4, "Deployment Scenarios," on page 40

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