HP Multi-Site Traffic Director sa9200 - Manual (Page 31)

Multi-Site
Scenarios
Scenario 1
One Web site, two geographical sites (one server each), two
SA9200s, optional SA7120s
Introduction An e-commerce company with a single Web site ( www.mstd-
ex.com ) wants to expand their site to two geographically dispersed
locations so that customers can be referred to the site that gives them
the fastest response time. They initially deploy only a single server at
each site (no load balancers), but they want the ability to expand as
the demand on their Web site increases.
Initially, a SA9200 would be deployed at each site. Optional
SA7120s could be deployed in front of each server for HTTPS
traffic. Since only one server is being deployed at each site no
load balancers are required. The SA9200s is set up to monitor the
health of the Web site by performing a periodic HTTP probe of
the main Web page on each server. After verification that the
initial configuration is working properly, the balancing method is