Scenario: single accelerator accelerating multiple servers

About this scenario

In this scenario, one accelerator is deployed to accelerate three servers, which could be Web servers or streaming servers. Only one network card is installed in the accelerator, and multiple IP addresses are associated with the card. The administrator's goal is to have a separate interface on the accelerator handle requests for each server.

This deployment differs from the scenarios in which an accelerator was accelerating a single server because the administrator must provide a way for the accelerator to distribute requests to the correct servers.

Deployment illustrated

The following illustration shows a single accelerator servicing multiple servers.

Notice that in this scenario the accelerator was assigned multiple host names and IP addresses. When you assign multiple host names and IP addresses to the accelerator, you can configure accelerator options in the Appliance Manager to ensure that NetCache can send cache misses through a particular interface to a specific server.

Note
NetCache supports a single IP interface and a single IP address. NetCache also supports one IP address and any number of IP address aliases for the accelerator, no matter how many cards and interfaces the accelerator has.