Real loadbalancer offer more functionality, like hash uri for sticky on specific varnish and reduce cache objet redundancy.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Allan Brand <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks! Does Varnish support least-connections or weighted > least-connections load balancing? > > Also, in the scenario of placing a LB in front of Varnish, is the > Varnish host a dedicated machine or is it running locally on the web > servers? > > Allan > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Hugo Cisneiros (Eitch) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Allan Brand <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm new to Varnish and I've seen a number of discussions where Varnish >>> is used in conjunction with a load balancer in the following manner: >>> [LB] -> [Varnish] -> [www 1-n] >>> >>> I'm guessing that Varnish is running locally on the www hosts? If >>> not, Is there any reason why placing Varnish in front of the load >>> balancers instead would not be ideal? >>> [Varnish] -> [LB} -> [www 1-n] >> >> Usually you use LB in front of varnish for high availability cases. >> Then, if a varnish fails, the other will take over all the work. >> >> But there's no problem using Varnish as a load balancer as it does a >> great job, as others said in this thread. But you must pay attention >> to the fail over/load balancing on the varnish as well :-) >> >> -- >> []'s >> Hugo >> www.devin.com.br >> >> _______________________________________________ >> varnish-misc mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc > > > > -- > --------------------------------------- > Allan > (208) 977-6014 (eFax) > > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
