Diffrence BW Hardware Load Balancer Vs. Software Load Balancer

Asked By A K Azad 35 points N/A Posted on - 08/05/2016

Does a software load balancer also work as operative as a hardware load balancer? Decide which performs the best in this hardware load balancer vs. software load balancer.

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Answered By Iumali 10 points N/A #126723

Diffrence BW Hardware Load Balancer Vs. Software Load Balancer

The following are the essential features that distinguish a hardware load balancer from a software load balancer:

Hardware load balancer	Software load balancer
• It relies on firmware to supply the program that operates the load balancer.  • Special management provisions are provided to update the firmware version along with bugs and patches fixes.	• These are sensitive to the Operating System versions.  • Advanced testing should be deployed to avoid any load balancer disruptions that are caused by changing OS version.

 

 

 

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