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Load Balancing
- How Load Balancing Works
- Setting Up Basic Load Balancing
- Load Balancing Virtual Server and Service States
- Support for Load Balancing Profile
- Load Balancing Algorithms
- Persistence and Persistent Connections
- Customizing a Load Balancing Configuration
- Configuring Diameter Load Balancing
- Configuring FIX Load Balancing
- Protecting a Load Balancing Configuration against Failure
- Managing a Load Balancing Setup
- Managing Client Traffic
- Advanced Load Balancing Settings
- The Built-in Monitors
- Custom Monitors
- Configuring Monitors in a Load Balancing Setup
- Managing a Large Scale Deployment
- Configuring Load Balancing for Commonly Used Protocols
- Use Case 1: SMPP Load Balancing
- Use Case 2: Configuring Rule Based Persistence Based on a Name-Value Pair in a TCP Byte Stream
- Use Case 3: Configuring Load Balancing in Direct Server Return Mode
- Use Case 4: Configuring LINUX Servers in DSR Mode
- Use Case 5: Configuring DSR Mode When Using TOS
- Use Case 6: Configuring Load Balancing in DSR Mode for IPv6 Networks by Using the TOS Field
- Use Case 7: Configuring Load Balancing in DSR Mode by Using IP Over IP
- Use Case 8: Configuring Load Balancing in One-arm Mode
- Use Case 9: Configuring Load Balancing in the Inline Mode
- Use Case 10: Load Balancing of Intrusion Detection System Servers
- Use Case 11: Isolating Network Traffic using Listen Policies
- Use Case 12: Configuring XenDesktop for Load Balancing
- Use Case 13: Configuring XenApp for Load Balancing
- Use Case 14: ShareFile Wizard for Load Balancing Citrix ShareFile
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Load Balancing
Mar 24, 2015
The load balancing feature distributes user requests for web pages and other protected applications across multiple servers that all host (or mirror) the same content. You use load balancing primarily to manage user requests to heavily used applications, preventing poor performance and outages and ensuring that users can access your protected applications. Load balancing also provides fault tolerance; when one server that hosts a protected application becomes unavailable, the feature distributes user requests to the other servers that host the same application.
You can configure the load balancing feature to:
- Distribute all requests for a specific protected website, application, or resource between two or more identically configured servers.
- Use any of several different algorithms to determine which server should receive each incoming user request, basing the decision on different factors, such as which server has the fewest current user connections or which server has the lightest load.
The load balancing feature is a core feature of the NetScaler appliance. Most users first set up a working basic configuration and then customize various settings, including persistence for connections. In addition, you can configure features for protecting the configuration against failure, managing client traffic, managing and monitoring servers, and managing a large scale deployment.