Load Balancing

In Vertica, load balancing supports multiple client connections through an IP address that is shared among all nodes in a cluster. Your cluster needs to balance incoming client requests across nodes and prevent node exclusion from clients in the case of node failure.

While you are developing your application, simulate a high load of activity in your cluster to mimic the expected behavior after the application is running.

You can perform load balancing on your database cluster using any of these methods:

For more detailed information, see the Connection Load Balancing and Adding Nodes sections in the Administrator's Guide.