Hierarchies, Clusters, and Multihoming

Large Web sites require multiple Web servers in rather complex configurations. The Excelerator appliance is designed to accelerate most complex configurations, including Web server farms and various multihoming configurations.

Appliances can be configured in hierarchical relationships for efficiency in obtaining and caching Web content. Appliances can also be clustered together to provide multiple proxy services and failover protection of the services.

The chapters in this section provide overviews of the advanced configurations your Web content strategy might need, as well as setup and troubleshooting help for each configuration.

To See

Set up appliance hierarchies and/or configure the appliance to get and share content in hierarchical relationships with other proxy servers

Hierarchical Caching

Set up a cluster of appliances to provide multiple proxy services and ensure failover protection of the services

Clustering

Set up multihoming configurations

Appliance Groups and Multihomed Configurations