Assign weights to services

In a load balancing configuration, you assign weights to services to indicate the percentage of traffic that should be sent to each service. Services with higher weights can handle more requests; services with lower weights can handle fewer requests. Assigning weights to services allows the NetScaler appliance to determine how much traffic each load balanced server can handle, and therefore more effectively balance load.

Note: If you use a load balancing method that supports weighting of services (for example, the round robin method), you can assign a weight to the service.

The following table describes the load balancing methods that support weighting, and briefly describes the manner in which weighting affects how a service is selected for each one.

To configure a virtual server to assign weights to services by using the CLI

At the command prompt, type:

set lb vserver <name> -weight <Value> <ServiceName>

Example:

set lb vserver Vserver-LB-1 -weight 10 Service-HTTP-1

To configure a virtual server to assign weights to services by using the GUI

1. Navigate to Traffic Management > Load Balancing > Virtual Servers.
2. Open the virtual server, and then click in the Services section.
3. In the weight column for the service, assign a weight to the service.