Load Balancing / High Availability Cluster


Building a load-balancing, highly available cluster with ARTICA High Availability Solution means your company doesn't have to spend big bucks to scale your application with increasing demand or to ensure critical services never go down. Most corporates respond to stringent service level requirements or poor application performance by buying larger, more expensive, machines or worse, turning to a proprietary load-balancing or ha appliance.

Using ARTICA High Availability Solution can quickly create a load-balanced, HA server farm from a 2 node cluster, to any number of nodes, limited only by your network bandwidth/configuration. In any ARTICA High Availability Solution setup there are two components necessary to create a highly available, load-balanced cluster namely (3 with IP Fail-over):

    * A load-balancer ,
    * A cluster,
     

In a load-balanced scenario, where there is a cluster of real servers providing services on behalf of a server, a failure of one or more real serves will allow the remaining operational servers to continue to provide a service via the load balancer. It is the job of the cluster manager to remove dead or unresponsive servers from the cluster configuration and make servers available once they come back online.