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I just saw that Ratz beat me to the punch (rats!), but maybe this meager
summation will help you anyway.
> So LVS is basically and advanced way of doing DNS round robin stuff--
> similar to Cisco's LocalDirector?
In LVS there are different algorithms that can provide different ways of
load-balancing, so essentially like a LD on steroids. Some of the bonuses :
- LVS however doesn't bridge like localdirector.
- 3 different topology choices to choose from (including support of
application server load balancing over segregate networks, for example
different ISPs).
- inexpensive (free).
- you get the source!
Negatives
- platform contains moving parts (hardrive).
- development/setup time for each install is greater than prepackaged
solutions like BigIP or LD.
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