HP Multi-Site Traffic Director sa9200 - Manual (Page 8)

C H A P T E R 1 HP Multi-Site Traffic Director Server Appliance SA9200 User Guide
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• Scalability
The SA9200 can work cooperatively with up to fifteen other
SA9200s in deployment across sites. A site may be managed by
any HP Traffic Director Server Appliance or HP e-Commerce
Traffic Director Server Appliance, which can in turn intelligently
manage server farms, and return server performance data to the
SA9200. The SA9200 also supports sites that have third-party
load balancers.
• Flexibility
The SA9200 offers six distinct methods of balancing your
distributed resources, ensuring a solution for your multi-site
problems.
• Weighted Round Robin
• Weighted Random
• Response Time
• Least Connections
• CPU Utilization of Local Load Balancer
• Flash DNS
Who Should Use This Book
This user guide is intended for network administrators with a basic
knowledge of:
• Networking concepts and terminology
• Network topologies
• IP routing
• DNS and BIND