White Paper: Five Easy Steps To Implementing Application Load Balancing For Non-Stop Availability And Higher Performance

The idea of load balancing is well defined in the IT world: A network device accepts traffic on behalf of a group of servers, and distributes that traffic according to load balancing algorithms and the availability of the services that the servers provide. From network administrators to server administrators to application developers, this is a generally well understood concept.

The implementation of load balancing, however, is another matter. There are often many questions regarding how load balancing is deployed, how the servers are configured, and how the overall network architecture may need to change to accommodate load balancing appliances.

The following is a five step guide and introduction to the process of implementing application and server load balancing.
The good news is that deploying a load balancer needn't be perplexing or difficult. In fact, installing a Coyote Point Equalizer™ load balancer into an existing web server infrastructure can easily be done with minimal changes to your existing configuration. This document outlines how a fairly common web server installation can be outfitted with an Equalizer to provide load balancing with minimal changes to your network architecture using a simple "drop-in" deployment strategy. And best of all, you don't need to be a networking guru to install an Equalizer.