Load Balancing

Load balancing is a high-availability strategy that prevents any one server from getting overloaded with work, thereby adversely affecting system-wide performance, or even causing the server to fail entirely.

Load balancing primarily supports the server tier. Achieve improved fault-tolerance by balancing loads. Do this by:

• Creating and configuring two or more Unwired Servers in a cluster.
• Using some form of a centralized task distribution mechanism (for example, a relay server).
• Optionally using a third-party load balancer.

• Unwired Server Clusters
  An Unwired Server cluster provides highly available services to remote-device clients, typically requiring one or more relay servers and an optional load balancer.
• Afaria Clusters
  You can configure Afaria to use the same relay server as Unwired Server, even if the Afaria Server is installed on a seperate host computer than the Unwired Server tier.