
Enterasys Xpedition User Reference Manual 253
Load Balancing
Adding Servers to the Load Balancing Group
Once a logical server group is created, you specify the servers that can handle client
requests. When the XP receives a client request directed to the virtual server address, it
redirects the request to the actual server address and port. Server selection is done
according to the specified policy.
To add servers to the server group, enter the following command in Configure mode:
Session Persistence
Load balancing clients connect to a virtual IP address, which in reality is redirected to one
of several physical servers in a load balancing group. In many web page display
applications, a client may have its requests redirected to and serviced by different servers
in the group. In certain situations, however, it may be critical that all traffic for the client
be directed to the same physical server for the duration of the session; this is the concept
of session persistence.
When the XP receives a new session request from a client for a specific virtual address, the
XP creates a binding between the client (source) IP address/port socket and the
(destination) IP address/port socket of the load balancing server selected for this client.
Subsequent packets from clients are compared to the list of bindings: if there is a match,
the packet is sent to the same server previously selected for this client; if there is not a
match, a new binding is created. How the XP determines the binding match for session
persistence is configured with the persistence-level option when the load balancing
group is created (see Creating the Server Group on page 252).
There are four configurable levels of session persistence:
• TCP persistence: a binding is determined by the matching the source IP/port address
as well as the virtual destination IP/port address. For example, requests from the client
address of 134.141.176.10:1024 to the virtual destination address 207.135.89.16:80 is
considered one session and would be directed to the same load balancing server (for
example, the server with IP address 10.1.1.1). A request from a different source socket
from the same client address to the same virtual destination address would be
considered another session and may be directed to a different load balancing server
(for example, the server with IP address 10.1.1.2). This is the default level of session
persistence.
Add load balancing servers to a
specific server group.
load-balance add host-to-group <ipaddr/range> group-
name
<group name> port <port number> [weight
<weight>]
Add range of load balancing
servers to a range of server
groups.
load-balance add host-to-vip-range <range> vip-range-
name
<range name> port <port number> [weight
<weight>]
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