OEM Products Flashcards
OEM Products
1
Q
What is a Load Balancer?
A
Device that acts as a reverse proxy and distributes network or application traffic across a number of servers.
2
Q
What are Load Balancers used for?
A
To increase capacity and reliability of applications. They improve the overall performance of applications by decreasing the burden on servers associated with managing and maintaining application and network sessions.
3
Q
Two main groups/categories of Load Balancers
A
Layer 4 and Layer 7
4
Q
Load Balancer industry standard algorithms
A
Round robin, Weighted round robin, lease connections, least response time.
