Configure Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 on the machine that you will use to load balance server traffic.
Before setting up the Dispatcher machine, you must be the root user (for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, or Solaris systems) or the Administrator on Windows systems.
For the Dispatcher machine you will need at least two valid IP addresses.
The figure below shows an example of Load Balancer set up with a single cluster, two ports, and three servers.
Review the new features section for what's been added and improved in this release.
If your pages specify links that point to individual servers for your site, you are in effect forcing a client to go to a specific machine, thus bypassing any load balancing function that might otherwise be in effect.
In general, the load balancing function works independently of the content of the sites on which you use the product, but link addressing is one area in which the site content can be important. Decisions that you make regarding the site's content can have a significant impact upon the Load Balancer's efficiency. Use the address of Load Balancer in any links contained in your pages. Note that the kind of addressing used might not always be apparent if your site uses automated programming that dynamically creates HTML.
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