Global Load Balancing

This chapter discusses the Traffic Manager's Global Load Balancing (GLB) capability.

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Introduction and Prerequisites

GLB is designed to provide business continuity and improved performance across globally distributed locations. This capability is based upon a technique known as Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB). The Traffic Manager uses geographic load balancing and failover functionality to enable the distribution of traffic across these locations based on availability, performance and user-defined rules.

This chapter describes how to plan and configure GLB in your Traffic Manager deployment. To perform the configuration described here, you must be familiar with standard system administration tasks, including networking and DNS administration. For a background on DNS, see DNS Primer.

For further details about the principles of GSLB, see About Global Server Load Balancing. Ivanti recommends that you also refer to the background whitepapers and documentation published on www.ivanti.com and the Pulse Community Web site at https://community.pulsesecure.net.