Load balancing system

• US 20050102400A1
• Filed: 09/03/2004
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Noda, Fumio, Nagami, Akihisa, Nakahara, Masahiko
• Application Number:
  US10/933,225
• Publication Number:
  US 20050102400A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10015 Access to distributed or replicated servers, e.g. using brokers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1008 based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload monitoring of computer activity G06F11/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1023 based on a hash applied to IP addresses or costs
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A load balancing system having a plurality of service servers and a load balancer which prevents a service performance from being reduced by an overload of requests on the service servers. The system includes a load balancer and a administration server, the load balancer outputs an access log relating to an access to the service server, and the administration server performs statistical operation over the access log. The administration server prepares a service server run schedule on the basis of a result of the statistical operation and informs the load balancer of it. The load balancer controls distribution of a request to the service server according to the informed run schedule.

Claims

1. A load balancing system for distributing a request received from a client terminal to any of a plurality of service servers and transmitting a response from the service server to the client terminal, the system comprising:

a load balancer having a function of distributing the request from the client terminal to the plurality of service servers; and

an administration module for monitoring an operational state of the load balancer,

wherein;

the load balancer has a function of outputting an access log relating to processing of the request,

the administration module has a function of reading the output access log and performing statistical operation thereover, a function of predicting the number of service servers necessary the processing the request on the basis of a result of the statistical operation relating to the processing of the request and preparing a run schedule of the service servers, and a function of instructing the load balancer to distribute the request to the service servers according to the run schedule.

2. The load balancing system according to claim 1, wherein the load balancer has a function of previously determining a method of distributing the request to the service servers on the basis of the instructed run schedule.

3. The load balancing system according to claim 1, wherein the administration module has a function of accepting an input of a specific assignment day and a function of performing statistical operation unique to the accepted assignment day for the assignment day.

4. The load balancing system according to claim 3, wherein the administration module has, for the assignment day, a function of preparing the run schedule for the assignment day including a request distribution method unique to the assignment day on the basis of a result of the statistical operation unique to the assignment day, and a function of instructing the load balancer to distribute the request to the service servers according to the run schedule for the assignment day.

5. The load balancing system according to claim 4, wherein the load balancer has a function of previously determining a method of distributing the request to the service servers for the assignment day on the basis of the instructed run schedule for the assignment day.

6. The load balancing system according to claim 3, wherein the load balancer has a function of deleting the statistical operation of the assignment day from the result of the statistical operation.

7. The load balancing system according to claim 2, wherein, when a number of requests received from the client terminals exceeds a number of requests which can be processed by the service servers corresponding to a predicted number in the run schedule, the load balancer has a function of rejecting the requests from the client terminals.

8. The load balancing system according to claim 2, wherein, when a number of requests received from the client terminals exceeds a number of requests which can be processed by the service servers corresponding to a predicted number in the run schedule, the load balancer has a function of changing the instructed run schedule, adding a new service server as a request distribution destination, and continuing processing of the requests from the client terminals according to a changed run schedule.