Vipserver Introduction
Vipserver is a middle-tier load balancing (mid-tier load Balancing) product developed by Ali Middleware Team, Vipserver is based on Peer-to-peer mode and is a seven-tier load balancing product. Vipserver provides dynamic domain name resolution and load balancing services, support a number of such as multiple business units with the unit priority, the same computer room priority, with regional priority, such as a series of intelligent scheduling and disaster recovery strategy, support a variety of health monitoring protocols, support the fine weight control, provide a multistage disaster-tolerant system Health threshold protection and other protection solutions. Ali load Balancing system, the Domain Name Service system is a very important part.
Detailed schema design information see paper:
Vipserver:a System for Dynamic address Mapping and Environment Management