Network Load Balancing Server Brick

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Description

This brick shows NIH’s direction for network load balancers that allow server workload to be distributed across multiple servers for greater end-to-end application availability.

Brick Information
Tactical (0-2 years)	Strategic (2-5 years)
Cisco Systems F5 Networks	Cisco Systems F5 Networks
Retirement (To be eliminated)	Containment (No new development)
	Foundry Networks Nortel Networks
Baseline (Today)	Emerging (To track)
Cisco Systems F5 Networks Foundry Networks Nortel Networks	Cisco Systems F5 Networks

Comments

All new network elements at NIH must support Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).
Coordinate any load balancing implementations through Center for Information Technology (CIT) for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation.
Refer to Network Load Balancing Pattern in Section 2.5.
Tactical and strategic products were selected to leverage NIH's investment in products that are a proven fit for NIH's known future needs. Leveraging baseline products in the future will minimize the operations, maintenance, support and training costs of new products.
Some baseline products have been designated retirement and containment. These products are either not as widely or successfully deployed at NIH, or they do not provide as much functionality, value, or Total Cost of Ownership as the selected tactical and strategic products.