Deployment Planning

• Load Balancing

  • Two places a load balancer can be required:
    • to front for a set of cache servers
    • to front for a series of Zope clients
  • Load balancers:
    • Linux Virtual Server (LVS), open source, can be complicated to set up, screamingly fast.
    • “Pound” and “PythonDirector” are written in Python, open source, simple, performance unknown.
    • Commercial: BigIP, Arrowpoint, Cisco