Intel 7190 manual Scenario, Introduction

Multi-Site Scenarios

Scenario 1

Introduction

One Web site, two geographical sites (one server each), two 7190s, optional 7110s

An e-commerce company with a single Web site (www.mstd- ex.com) wants to expand their site to two geographically dispersed locations so that customers can be referred to the site that gives them the fastest response time. They initially deploy only a single server at each site (no load balancers), but they want the ability to expand as the demand on their Web site increases.

Initially, a 7190 would be deployed at each site. Optional 7110s could be deployed in front of each server for HTTPS traffic. Since only one server is being deployed at each site no load balancers are required. The 7190s is set up to monitor the health of the Web site by performing a periodic HTTP probe of the main Web page on each server. After verification that the initial configuration is working properly, the balancing method is