Load Balancing and Varnish

[Crowder, Travis]

Yes.

See http://www.scribd.com/doc/92715754/Varnish-Book#page=122

-Travis

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From: varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org [mailto:varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org] On Behalf Of Allan Brand
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 12:32 PM
To: varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
Subject: Re: Load Balancing and Varnish

Can Varnish load balance with algorithms other than round-robin or random?  That's all I've been able to find.

Thanks,
Allan

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Javier Casares <javier at casares.org> wrote:
> ¿Why don't you use Varnish as a LB?
>
> https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/LoadBalancing
>
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> Javier Casares
> http://javiercasares.com/
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> 2012/6/26 Allan Brand <allan.brand at gmail.com>:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm new to Varnish and I've seen a number of discussions where 
>> Varnish is used in conjunction with a load balancer in the following manner:
>> [LB] -> [Varnish] -> [www 1-n]
>>
>> I'm guessing that Varnish is running locally on the www hosts?  If 
>> not, Is there any reason why placing Varnish in front of the load 
>> balancers instead would not be ideal?
>> [Varnish] -> [LB} -> [www 1-n]
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Allan
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