Load Balancing and Varnish

[Allan Brand]

Thanks!  Does Varnish support least-connections or weighted
least-connections load balancing?

Also, in the scenario of placing a LB in front of Varnish, is the
Varnish host a dedicated machine or is it running locally on the web
servers?

Allan

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Hugo Cisneiros (Eitch)
<hugo.cisneiros at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Allan Brand <allan.brand at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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]
>
> Usually you use LB in front of varnish for high availability cases.
> Then, if a varnish fails, the other will take over all the work.
>
> But there's no problem using Varnish as a load balancer as it does a
> great job, as others said in this thread. But you must pay attention
> to the fail over/load balancing on the varnish as well :-)
>
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