How Load Balancer distributes traffic: None, the default 5-tuple hash; Client IP, a 2-tuple affinity; or Client IP and Protocol, a 3-tuple affinity.
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Terms in this definition
- ELT
Extract, load, transform: raw data lands in the target system first and is transformed there. See ETL for the opposite order.
- 5-tuple
The five values that identify a flow: protocol plus the source and destination IP addresses and ports. Azure Load Balancer hashes them by default to spread traffic, and IP flow verify in Network Watcher takes them as its input.