CCNA Data Center DCICT 640-916 Official Cert Guide

Stickiness

Some applications require a client always to talk to the same server to complete a business transaction. This requirement is opposite of the load-balancing requirement where you would like to distribute the client connections across multiple servers. Stickiness is a feature that enables a client to communicate to the same server for a period of time. During this period, all connections from the client go to the same real server. For example, this feature is useful for e-commerce applications where a client needs to maintain multiple connections with the same server while shopping online, especially while building a shopping cart and during the checkout process. The stickiness feature is used by many applications in the industry. Any ...