How do I do load balancing for GateKeeper?
There are at least two ways you can do load balancing for GateKeeper. One is to use low-level devices to redirect TCP traffic among an array of GateKeepers when there is no callback involved. This is made possible in GateKeeper 4.0 because GateKeeper doesn’t keep states anymore except for callbacks. Another way is to use GateKeeper build-in load balancing mechanism. Currently you can set a master GateKeeper and a set of slave GateKeepers and cluster them together through a property file. Both the server or the client only has to know the master GateKeeper. The master GateKeeper will do round-robin load balancing among the set of slave GateKeepers. The load balancing is done at object level. That is, each object will be redirected to one of the slave GateKeepers at the first request. You can also use GateKeeper 4.0 to do load balancing for VBJ 3.4 clients and servers. The other benefits with clustering GateKeeper is to provide fault tolerance on those slave GateKeepers. To configure the
