Category: Clustering

Clustering is generally used to refer to the capability of a software product to provide load-balancing services and load-balancing is often used to refer to a hardware-based (or at least third-party software) solution.
Clustering is most often used in conjunction with application servers such as BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, and Oracle AS (10g). So are load-balancing features found within Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) like BIG-IP.
In the world of hardware load balancers the term “pool” or “farm” is used to describe a grouping of servers across which application requests will be distributed. Inthe world of software load balancing the term used is “cluster”.