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Almost
Nearly
2x
2.5x
7.6
#1
2.5X
7.6
66%
7.6
Sources: 1. Forrester Research, Cloud Channel Trends, 2013 to 2014, February 2013, 2. IDC: Worldwide channel and alliances 2013 top 10 predictions, January 2013,3. IBM CIO
study, 2011,
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VIP
connections
per second
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Balancing methods
The local load balancer utilizes round robin, shortest response, least connections,
and consistent hash IP as methods to balance traffic among two or more servers in a
data center.
VIP
connections
per second
Shortest
response
Least
connections
Local
load
balancer
Consistent
hash IP
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Routing to servers
VIP
connections
per second
Shortest
response
Least
connections
Local
load
balancer
Consistent
hash IP
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Configuring examples
Below are two examples of how the configure the global load balancer simple and
complex.
Example
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Simple configuration
Complex
configuration
VIP
connections
per second
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Deployment options:
50 VIP connections per second
100 VIP connections per second
200 VIP connections per second
500 VIP connections per second
1,000 VIP connections per second
Balancing methods
The global load balancer utilizes weight round robin, geography, round robin, and
failover as methods to balance traffic among two or more servers in one or more data
centers.
Resides in
all SoftLayer
data centers
and PoPs
Weighted
round robin
VIP
connections
per second
Geography
Round
robin
Global
load
balancer
Failover
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Routing to servers
Resides in
all SoftLayer
data centers
and PoPs
Weighted
round robin
VIP
connections
per second
Geography
Round
robin
Global
Load
balancer
SoftLayer data center 2
Failover
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The deployment options for Citrix NetScaler Standard and Platinum Editions are
10 Mbps, 200 Mbps, and 1 Gbps.
One, two, four, eight, or 16 public IP addresses.
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Platinum Edition
TCP buffering
TCP multiplexing
SSL offload and
acceleration
Cache redirection
Client and server TCP
optimizations
Citrix AppCompress for
HTTP
Citrix AppCache
L4 DoS defenses
Layer 7 content filtering
HTTP rewrite
URL rewrite
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Deployment options:
1 Gbps dedicated
1 Gbps dedicated with high availability
Deployment options:
10 Mbps
100 Mbps
1 Gbps
server or CCI)
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CPU
RAM
Disk configuration
Disk options
4 GB
8 GB
12 GB
16 GB
32 GB
JBOD
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 5
RAID 10
SATA
SATA 10K
SCSI 10K
SCSI 15K
SSD
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IP block type
Description
Static IP block
Portable IP block
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Private Network. Resolving name servers are located on the private network and act
as DNS resolvers for a customers server. The private resolvers slave from SoftLayer
public name servers so they are always up to date. This is a convenience service for
customers.
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Describing a VLAN
What is a VLAN?
Virtual LAN (VLAN) is a networking concept in which network interfaces on different
routers, switches, and servers act as if they're on the same local network broadcast
domain.
How are VLANs used by SoftLayer?
SoftLayer servers are provisioned on private VLANs that are created per router (in a
data center) for the public and private networks. See the diagram below.
Public network
Private network
DC1
VLAN
1
VLAN
5
VLAN
4
VLAN
2
VLAN
3
DC2
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DC3
VLAN
6
Spanning
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Questions
?
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Recommended actions
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Topic #
Topic
February 25
February 27
One size does not fit all Defining the SoftLayer cloud architecture
March 4
March 6
March 11
March 13
March 18
March 20
You cant manage what you dont monitor SoftLayer management and
monitoring
March 25