decent conceptual tutorial, but dated now

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Book:		Server Load Balancing
Subject:		decent conceptual tutorial, but dated now
Date:		2008-02-27 13:44:58
From:		Dave Kitabjian

Rating: Years ago, I actually found this book to be a rather handy, conceptual overview of the principles behind load balancing. While it has some vendor-specific details, its greatest asset is helping the IT architect understand the topological options for layout out his redundancy. The diagrams are particularly helpful. The biggest problem is that it's now rather dated. It has no treatment of SANs or storage virtualization in general. I don't believe it covers CPU virtualization either, such as offered by Parallels. To round things out nicely, a chapter on database clustering would be welcome as well.