Maybe your website needs are growing beyond the management capabilities of ClusterCATS load balancing solution. Well, never fear! Frank DeRienzo, Principal Technical Support Engineer, Macromedia, shows us a number of hardware load balancing options that are available. This example-based ColdFusion 5 upgrade procedure illustrates the transition from ClusterCATS to a hardware-based load balancing, and addresses such issues as: the configuration of Cisco Local Director (CLD) running the dynamic feedback protocol (dfp), as well as the configuration of other layer-two hardware load balancing devices that do not support dfp.
ColdFusion 5.0 Server Monitoring and Hardware Load Balancing Devices