Brocade Communications Systems ServerIron ADX 12.4.00 User Manual
Serveriron adx, Global server load balancing guide
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- About This Document
- Global Server Load Balancing
- Global Server Load Balancing overview
- Minimum required configuration
- Configuring GSLB
- Proxy for DNS server
- Private VIPs for GSLB
- Configuring GSLB protocol parameters
- Secure GSLB
- Site persistence in GSLB using stickiness
- Site persistence in GSLB using hashing
- Enabling hash-based GSLB persistence
- Displaying the hash table
- Hashing scheme
- IP address allocation
- IP address failure or removal from domain
- Rehash: new IP address for a domain or change of state
- Disabling rehash
- Hash-persist hold-down: boot up considerations if rehash disabled
- Manually forcing rehash for a domain
- Show commands
- Weighted distribution of sites with hash-based persistence
- Overview of distribution of sites with hash-based persistence
- Configuring distribution of sites with hash-based persistence
- Configuring weights for domain IP addresses
- Disabling rehash on introduction of new IP addresses or state change from down to healthy
- Disable rehash when weight for an IP is changed
- Displaying the contents of active RTT cache entries
- Affinity
- GSLB domain-level affinity
- DNS cache proxy
- Transparent DNS query intercept
- Enabling DNS request logging
- DNSSEC
- Host-level policies for site selection
- Geographic region for a prefix
- Smoothing mechanism for RTT measurements
- Round-trip times
- Passive RTT gathering
- Active RTT gathering
- Support for both active and passive RTT
- Active RTT gathering issues and trade-offs
- Enabling active RTT
- Discarding passive RTT
- Disabling passive RTT gathering
- Configuring active RTT parameters
- Probes for RTT gathering
- Active RTT gathering and high availability support
- Displaying RTT information
- GSLB affinity for high availability
- GSLB optimization
- 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 RTT information
- Displaying GSLB resources
- Displaying dynamic server information
- Specifying the source IP of probes
- Displaying information in the prefix cache
- SNMP traps and syslog messages
- GSLB error handling for unsupported DNS requests
- Global Server Load Balancing for IPv6
- Global server load balancing for IPv6 overview
- Basic GSLB for IPv6 configuration
- 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
- Hash-based persistence for IPv6
- Weighted hash-based persistence for IPv6
- Configuring DNS response parameters
- GSLB of ANY queries
- Displaying GSLB for IPv6 configurations
- Troubleshooting GSLB for IPv6 configurations
- Reference Materials