Client connection balancing

Connection balancing spreads out the overhead associated with client connections across the Data Archive collective, distributing client connections amongst the various servers in the collective. Having more than one dedicated server assigned to handle client connections avoids overloading that server.

Consider using connection balancing in scenarios where the other servers in the collective have similar host computer specifications and network configurations.

It is important to differentiate connection balancing from load balancing. Connection balancing distributes requests from the client randomly across multiple available servers in the collective. Load balancers control traffic from the data source and distribute that traffic to the best available server in the collective. AF SDK only enables connection balancing and does NOT perform load balancing.