Load balancing improves the level of application availability and scalability: with this feature you may ensure the VS will be available and working smoothly even in the condition of high traffic.
Load Balancers, both autoscaling clusters and load balancer clusters, can only be created on the basis of virtual servers and are not available for smart servers, baremetal servers, or VMware virtual servers.
There are two load balancing options in OnApp:
Load balancer clusters
With this option, you specify which VSs (nodes) will participate in a load balancer cluster. Incoming traffic is distributed evenly between all the VSs added to a cluster – you still present a single host name to end users, but they actually access the cluster of VSs rather than a single end point. This helps application availability: if one VS fails, traffic is automatically routed to another in the cluster. You can add and remove cluster VSs as required.
Autoscaling clusters
VS Autoscaling increases or decreases your VS capacity by automatically adding or removing nodes to a cluster. The cluster is scaled in (decreased) or out (increased) based on rules you specify in the Control Panel. This aids application performance and scalability.
For instance, you can create a rule that will add 3 more nodes to a cluster if CPU usage has been more than 90% for the last 5 minutes; or rules that remove a node if there has been more than 256 MB RAM free for the last 20 minutes.
