Round-Robin Director Backends

Per Buer perbu at varnish-software.com
Mon Oct 3 10:24:46 CEST 2011


Hi,

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Corey Hammerton <CoreyH at ganz.com> wrote:


Hello,****
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> I have an environment with multiple backend servers that require most
> images (static content) be replicated out to all servers, this is causing
> unnecessary load on our backend servers. To mitigate this problem we plan to
> put in a Varnish system to grab the assets from the backend servers and send
> them to the client VIA a round-robin director. ****
>
> ** **
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> If Varnish cannot find the asset on the current backend server does it
> automatically go to the next backend in the list? If not what VCL code do we
> need to insert to accomplish this?
>

You should probably have a look at saint mode. It can do what you want.

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