Client connectivity

Workload routing

Workload routing lets you create rules for routing client connections to particular subclusters based on their workloads.

The primary advantages of this type of load balancing is as follows:

• Database administrators can associate certain subclusters with certain workloads (as opposed to client IP addresses).
• Clients do not need to know anything about the subcluster they will be routed to, only the type of workload they have.
• Database administrators can change workload routing policies at any time, and these changes are transparent to all clients.

For details, see Workload routing.