Analysis of Information Flows Distribution with a Load Balancer in Data Centers

This work is devoted to building a model for distributing information flows in data centers using a load balancer. The main material is devoted to a detailed consideration of two methods of distributing information flows in data centers - static balancing and dynamic balancing by the method of least connections. The balancing logic using the method of the least number of connections was implemented on network equipment - Cisco routers and switches and in the GNS3 network modeling program. Within the framework of this implementation, a simplified model of a data center is presented, and the dependences of quality of service characteristics on input data are constructed based on an analysis of real traffic. The solutions proposed in this work can be successfully used when planning the architecture of modern data centers and can be used in combination with a number of already used load balancer operating models.