[Info-vax] How would you load balance excess webserver traffic between multiple OpenVMS servers?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <f88842c5-27c1-4cb6-b972-e40e36b8ad5do at googlegroups.com>, D W
<ultradwc at gmail.com> writes: 

> There are MULTIPLE different approaches to doing this. Most involve
> HTTP (web) cookies and may involve DNS round robin load balancing or
> load balancers. 

Why not use the metric server and load broaker on a shared-everything
cluster? 

> But how would this be accomplished using Apache or another web package
> on OpenVMS? 

See above.

> Also if you house a DB like RDB on a separate OpenVMS server, what
> would be the fastest connect solution to obtain the fastest data
> transport rates between the DB server and other web servers? 

DECnet?