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Diagram illustrating user requests to an Elasticsearch cluster being distributed by a load balancer. (Example for Wikipedia.) In computing, load balancing is the process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources (computing units), with the aim of making their overall processing more efficient. Load balancing can optimize response ...
For example, public requests may be routed to the blue server, making it the production server and the green server the staging server, which can only be accessed on a private network. Changes are installed on the non-live server, which is then tested through the private network to verify the changes work as expected.
Various equipment and software vendors offer network virtualization by combining any of the following: Network hardware, such as switches and network adapters, also known as network interface cards (NICs) Network elements, such as firewalls and load balancers; Networks, such as virtual LANs (VLANs) and containers such as virtual machines (VMs)
Cloud load balancing is the process of distributing workloads across multiple computing resources. Cloud load balancing reduces costs associated with document management systems and maximizes availability of resources. It is a type of load balancing and not to be confused with Domain Name System (DNS) load balancing.
Cloud applications differ from other applications in their scalability—which can be achieved by cloning tasks onto multiple virtual machines at run-time to meet changing work demand. [49] Load balancers distribute the work over the set of virtual machines. This process is transparent to the cloud user, who sees only a single access-point.
To accomplish this, an ADC includes many OSI layer 3-7 services, including load-balancing. ADCs are intended to be deployed within the DMZ of a computer server cluster hosting web applications and/or services. In this sense, an ADC can be envisioned as a drop-in load balancer replacement. But that is where the similarities end.
The software enables customers to scale their operations by delivering applications using OSI layer 4 to 7 load balancing. LoadMaster is available as a hardware appliance as well as a software-based load balancer that is available as a virtualized appliance and in Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS .
Network Load Balancing Services (NLBS) is a Microsoft implementation of clustering and load balancing that is intended to provide high availability and high reliability, as well as high scalability. NLBS is intended for applications with relatively small data sets that rarely change (one example would be web pages), and do not have long-running ...