Document Outline

• Contents
• Preface
  • Document conventions
    • Text formatting
    • Command syntax conventions
    • Notes, cautions, and warnings
  • Brocade resources
  • Contacting Brocade Technical Support
  • Document feedback
• Global Server Load Balancing
  • Global Server Load Balancing overview
    • Basic concepts
    • GSLB example
    • GSLB policy
  • Minimum required configuration
  • Configuring GSLB
  • Proxy for DNS server
    • Configuring real server and virtual server for the DNS server
    • Enabling the GSLB protocol
    • Configuring a site
    • Identifying the location
    • Identifying the GSLB controller location
    • Configuring a zone
  • Private VIPs for GSLB
    • Configuring a public IP address for a VIP
    • Private VIP display information
  • Configuring GSLB protocol parameters
  • Secure GSLB
    • Initial session key generation
    • RSA challenge dialogue
    • GSLB message content randomization
    • Configuring secure GSLB
    • Regenerating the session keys
    • Minimum GSLB configuration
  • Site persistence in GSLB using stickiness
    • Algorithm
    • Enabling sticky GSLB
    • Allowing sticky sessions for a specific prefix length
    • Configuring the sticky GSLB session life time
    • Displaying current sticky GSLB sessions
    • Sticky GSLB counters
    • Deleting sticky GSLB session for a specific client
    • Deleting all sticky GSLB sessions
  • DNS cache proxy
    • Enabling DNS cache proxy
    • Displaying DNS cache proxy state
    • Displaying DNS cache proxy statistics
    • Combining the DNS cache proxy and DNS override features
    • GSLB DNS type any query
  • Transparent DNS query intercept
    • Redirecting queries
    • Redirecting queries and perform GSLB
    • Responding to queries directly
    • Displaying transparent DNS query intercept statistics
  • Enabling DNS request logging
    • Distributed health checks for GSLB
  • Host-level policies for site selection
    • Global vs host-level policy
    • Configuring host-level policies
    • Displaying host-level policy information
    • Deleting GSLB host-level policies
    • Configuration example
  • Geographic region for a prefix
    • How geographic location is determined
    • Configuring a geographic prefix
    • Displaying the number of geographic prefixes
    • Displaying information about geographic prefix
    • Example configuration
  • GSLB optimization
    • Optimized VIP list processing
    • Increased VIP support per site and reduced CPU usage on GSLB controller
    • Configuration example
    • Guidelines and recommendations for using this feature
  • Displaying GSLB information
    • Displaying site information
    • Displaying real server information
    • Displaying DNS zone and hosts
    • Displaying metric information
    • Displaying the default GSLB policy
    • Displaying the user-configured GSLB policy
    • Displaying GSLB resources
    • Displaying dynamic server information
    • Displaying information in the prefix cache
  • SNMP traps and Syslog messages
    • Syslog messages
• Global Server Load Balancing for IPv6
  • Global Server Load Balancing for IPv6 overview
    • GSLB for IPv6 feature support
    • GSLB for IPv6 example
  • Basic GSLB for IPv6 configuration
    • Configuring the GSLB controller
    • Site Brocade Virtual ADX configuration
    • Basic configuration example
  • Advanced GSLB configuration for IPv6
    • Configuring GSLB policy metrics for IPv6
    • Server (host) health metric
    • Weighted IP metric
    • Weighted site metric
    • Session capacity threshold metric
    • Active bindings metric
    • Geographic location metric
    • Available session capacity metric
    • FlashBack speed metric
    • Administrative preference metric
    • Least response selection metric
    • Round robin selection metric
    • Sticky persistence for IPv6
    • Configuring DNS response parameters
    • GSLB of ANY queries
  • Displaying GSLB for IPv6 configurations
    • Show commands for basic GSLB configurations
  • Troubleshooting GSLB for IPv6 configurations
    • Displaying GSLB debug counters
    • Troubleshooting IPv6 lists
    • Debug trace for GSLB
• Reference Materials
  • RFC
    • IPv4
    • IPv6
  • DNS
    • IPv4
    • IPv6 address assignment