Load Balancers in the Cloud-Research Strategyapplied in SAP Cloud
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: SAP load balancers are used to distribute network traffic across multiple servers in an SAP landscape environment. LoadBalancer ensure no single server is over-loaded with requests, thereby harmonizing performance and reliability of the SAP system. Loadbalancers can be hardware appliances or software-based solutions that are specifically designed to work with SAP applications. They helpto optimize resource utilization, improve scalability, and enhance the overall user experience. Moreover, load balancers can provide highavailability and fault tolerance by automatically routing traffic away from failed or underperforming servers. This paper elaborates thefundamental concepts of SAP systems are one of large enterprise systems with complex architectures, there are workload load balancersin SAP at every level to distribute traffic balancing workloads at SAP Application Level, Network level, to optimize traffic and reducelatency across intranet/internet, Cloud, In-House/On-Premise, local and Wide Area Networks, Cloud Providers also provide LoadBalancers to make sure systems are HIGHLY Available for businesses avoiding outages and make sure systems are available most of thetime close to 100% or almost all Cloud Providers are promising above 95% availability.
Source: Figshare
Author: Amgothu, Sudheer
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6939849899
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