A Study and Comparison of Various Types of Load Balancers

Load Balancer, critical component of distributed system plays a very important role in equally dividing the traffic among various servers thus minimizing server response time and maximizing the throughput. Different types of load balancers such as hardware load balancer, software Load balancer and virtual load balancer exist in the market. In this paper a study and comparisons of few lead load balancers has been made to enable IT companies to choose the best load balancer for their organizations.