Chapter 4. Networking
HAProxy
HAProxy is a stand-alone, Layer 7, high-performance network load balancer for TCP and HTTP-based applications which can perform various types of scheduling based on the content of the HTTP requests. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 introduces the haproxy package as a Technology Preview.
Mellanox SR-IOV Support
Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is now supported as a Technology Preview in the Mellanox
libmlx4
library and the following drivers:
mlx_core
mlx4_ib
(InfiniBand protocol)mlx_en
(Ethernet protocol)