Dell SonicWall SRA 4200 Administrator's Manual page 173

Adding a New Load Balancing Group
In the Portals > Load Balancing page, click the Add Group button. The New Load Balancing
Step 1
Group configuration information displays.
Enter a friendly LB Group Name for this load balancing group.
Step 2
Select a load balancing method from the LB Method drop-down list. Options include:
Step 3
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Select Enable Load Balancing to enable this group for load balancing.
Step 4
The Enable Session Persistence option is automatically selected when the group is enabled.
Step 5
This option allows the administrator to enable continuous user sessions by forwarding the
"requests" part of the same session to the same backend member.
Select Enable Failover to enable probing, monitoring, and failover features.
Step 6
Weighted Requests – Keeps track of the number of incoming requests (including
successfully completed requests) to decide which member should handle the next incoming
request. The LB Ratio will decide the percentage distribution.
Weighted Traffic – Keeps track of the number of bytes of inbound/outbound data to decide
which member should handle the next incoming request.
Least Requests – Keeps track of the number of incoming requests (excluding successfully
completed requests) that are currently being serviced to decide which Member should
handle the next incoming request.
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