Optimize speed and throughput with Layer 4 load balancing. Explore essential techniques like DSR and NAT, understand the benefits, core differences from Layer 7, and learn how to deliver high-performance, transparent application traffic.
While a single MariaDB server might suffice for your application's backend, a MariaDB Galera Cluster offers significant advantages, making it a far superior solution...
Layer 4 load balancing is a quick way of distributing application or network traffic across multiple servers...
A customer was having challenges deploying load balancers in their Cisco ACI environment. So we set to work finding a solution...
The first question we always ask our customers is: "are you looking for performance, reliability, maintainability — or all three?"..
For the uninitiated, layer 4 DR mode is a high performance load balancing method available on our appliances. It works by having all response traffic flow from the servers straight back to the clients...
The ARP problem for Layer 4 DR (Direct Routing) mode is something that needs to be solved for each of your Real Servers in the virtual service...
Working with our pre-sales customers, there is a misconception that you always need source IP transparency - which is not always the case...
Direct server return, direct routing - no matter what you call it, using DSR maximises the throughput of return traffic and allows for near endless scalability. Here's why we still love it...
For the uninitiated, Direct Server Return is a clever trick which entails directly routing packets to the chosen real server...
Direct Server Return (DSR) is my favorite way to load balance application servers because it’s simple, transparent, and super fast...
L3 DSR is an alternative technique to achieve direct server return at Layer 3. Instead of using an IPIP tunnel like LVS-TUN it changes the destination IP address like LVS-NAT when sending the traffic to the real server...
LVS-DR and LVS-TUN are both forms of Direct Server Return where the load balancer only has to deal with one half of the connection...
