Adding a New Load Balancing Group

1. In the Portals > Load Balancing Group page, click Add Group.

   

2. Enter a friendly LB Group Name for this load balancing group.

   

3. Select a load balancing method from the LB Method drop-down menu. Options include:

   • Weighted Requests – Keeps track of the number of incoming requests (including successfully completed requests) to decide which member should handle the next incoming request. The LB Ratio decides the percentage distribution.
   • Weighted Traffic – Keeps track of the number of bytes of inbound/outbound data to decide which member should handle the next incoming request.
   • Least Requests – Keeps track of the number of incoming requests (excluding successfully completed requests) that are currently being serviced to decide which Member should handle the next incoming request.
4. Select Enable Load Balancing to enable this group for load balancing.
5. The Enable Session Persistence option is automatically selected when the group is enabled. This option allows the administrator to enable continuous user sessions by forwarding the “requests” part of the same session to the same backend member.
6. Select Enable Failover to enable probing, monitoring, and failover features.