October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
12h 13m
English
SLB provides a virtual server IP address to which clients can connect, representing a group of real physical servers in a server farm. Figure 10-1 shows the basic SLB concept. A client accesses a logical “virtual” server (IP address v.v.v.v), which only exists within the Catalyst 6000 SLB configuration. A group of physical “real” servers (IP addresses x.x.x.x, y.y.y.y, and z.z.z.z) is configured as a server farm. Traffic flows between clients and the virtual server are load balanced across the set of real servers, transparent to the clients.

As clients open new connections to the virtual server, SLB decides which ...
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