CCNA Data Center DCICT 640-916 Official Cert Guide

Server Load-Balancing Concepts

Data centers are designed to host business applications in a centralized place. These business applications are sitting on servers inside the data center. These servers can provide service to a finite number of clients depending on their computing power, memory size, and application limits. As demand for an application increases, more clients want to connect to the server. You may address this increased demand by scaling up the server resources, such as adding more CPU and memory. However, another more flexible and most commonly used solution is to scale out by adding another server with the same application. When you scale out and add new servers, a server load-balancing solution is required to distribute the ...