All,
Can someone elaborate more on Request management in SP2013, what extra benefits do we have with Request management over windows Network Load Balancing (NLB)?
Thanks,
Raj
First paragraph of your technet article says:
Request Management feature in SharePoint 2013 manages incoming requests by evaluating logic rules against the user requests in order to determine what/which action to take, and which machine or machines (Targets) in the farm should handle the requests. SharePoint Foundation Web Application Service of SharePoint 2013 handles and responds to all incoming requests through IIS. Load Balancer is used to distribute incoming traffic across all the web front end servers. It is not necessary that all the web front end servers should be serving the incoming requests. Good example for such scenario would be dedicated Crawl Web Front end server. In such cases, Load balancing features will be leveraged to ensure right requests are redirected to the right machines.
A NLB doesn’t care what type of request comes in, it simple handles it the way it is configured and manages the routing to the back end systems. The request manager understands the requests in terms of SharePoint services and allows you to configure different servers for different services to balance the load on an application level.Â
For further reading go with Spencer Harbar -> http://www.harbar.net/archive/2012/11/12/Article-Request-Management-in-SharePoint-Server-2013.aspx
hth
Thomy
