Step 2: Evaluate TCP/IP workloads to be load balanced and select a load balancing solution (optional)

The first steps involve identifying the TCP/IP applications that you want to load balance, the systems that these applications will be running on, and ensuring that these applications can exploit load balancing. When this is done, evaluate the load balancing techniques that best meet your requirements. You might want to use a combination of workload balancing solutions.

There are various technology choices for performing IP load balancing in a sysplex environment. For a discussion of some of these choices, see Workload balancing.