Load balancing a network is a task that many administrators often overlook—to the detriment of their networks—even in the smallest of environments. Generally, poor network performance is treated by ...

Continuing to target enterprises that use legacy load-balancing hardware, VMware has upgraded the cloud and Kubernetes support in its core software-based load-balancing controller. VMware’s NSX ...

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

Computer networking company Avi Networks Inc. is making its load balancing controller for multiple public clouds available starting today as software as a service. Avi said it’s trying to overcome the ...

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Hey all, I have a client site that is running Ex2010 SP1 on 2 multi-role VMs in a DAG, for about 400 mailboxes across two DBs. The VMs are also HA via Hyper-V cluster. Currently, VM1 is hosting the ...

Admins seeking a secret weapon in Windows environments should look no further than network load balancing, an often underutilized capability built right into Windows Server, and one that’s easy to ...

With billions of people all over the world using its services, Facebook has long been forced to develop its own networking infrastructure in order to cope with the load because the systems and ...

Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...

In windows server 2003 there is a feature built into the TCP/IP networking and IIS that allows for network load balaning to happen between two servers, without dedicated load balancing hardware e.g, ...