Load balancing

Load balancing is a feature that is implemented in most Citrix NetScaler environments. Load balancing allows you to load balance different backend servers with the same purpose, for example, a web shop. A large web shop requires more than one web server because of the heavy load from visiting users. With load balancing, Citrix NetScaler will load balance the traffic between the visiting servers and the several backend servers. Besides load balancing, Citrix NetScaler can also monitor the backend server if, for example, the web server responds with HTTP Error code 200.

Load balancing

In order to configure the load balancing service in Citrix NetScaler, ...

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