Server Load Balancing for engineers

Description

This two-day Server Load Balancing course introduces the concepts of SLB from the reasons to implement, through the basics and then onto details studies of load distribution, health checks, layer 7 switching and Global SLB.

What will you learn

Server Load Balancing course details

Anyone working with SLB.

None.

2 days

Concept, reasons, benefits, alternatives. Other
features: Security, Caching.

Architectures, Virtual servers, real servers, Virtual
IP address, health checks. DNS load balancing.
Packet walk using SLB.

6 modes of bonding and load balancing without
SLB. ISP load balancing. Health. Distribution
policies: Round Robin, least connections,
weighted distributions, response time, other
variations. Persistent versus concurrent.

L2 SLB, L3 SLB, single arm SLB, DSR, more
packet walking, TCP versus UDP, Port numbers.

Persistence. Cookie switching, Cookie hashing,
Cookie insertion, URL switching, URL Hashing,
SSL.

Layer 3: ARP, ping. Layer 4: SYN, UDP. Layer 7:
HTTP GET, Status codes, HTTP keepalives,
content verification, SSL. Other application
keepalives. What to do after failure and recovery.

DOS attack protection, SYN
attack protection, Rate limiting: connections,
transactions. SSL offload.

Hot standby, Active standby, Active active.
Stateful, stateless. VRRP, STP.

Anycasting. DNS, TTL, DNS load balancing,
problems with DNS load balancing,. HTTP
redirect, health, thresholds, round trip times,
location.