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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2000
Robert J. Block, Mountain View, CA (US);
James G. Hanko, Redwood City, CA (US);
J. Kent Peacock, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for distributing load in a multiple server computer environment. In one embodiment, a group manager process on each server periodically determines the server's capacity and load (i.e., utilization) with respect to multiple resources. The capacity and load information is broadcast to the other servers in the group, so that each server has a global view of every server's capacity and current load. When a given terminal authenticates to a server to start or resume one or more sessions, the group manager process of that server first determines whether one of the servers in the group already is hosting a session for that user. If that is the case, one embodiment of the present invention redirects the desktop unit to that server and the load-balancing strategy is not employed. Otherwise, for each resource and server, the proper load balancing strategies are performed to identify which server is best able to handle that particular session.