VMware 6V0-22.25 Exam - Topic 7 Question 1 Discussion

Connection Multiplexing is most valuable when client behavior would otherwise create many short-lived server-side TCP connections. HTTP/1.0 is the best fit for this benefit because HTTP/1.0 commonly opens a separate TCP connection for each request unless keepalive behavior is specifically used. Avi Connection Multiplexing decouples the client-side connection from the server-side connection and allows the Service Engine to reuse server-side TCP connections for multiple HTTP requests. This reduces connection setup and teardown load on backend servers. HTTP/1.1 already introduced persistent connections as a standard behavior, so the relative benefit is smaller than with HTTP/1.0. HTTP/2 has its own multiplexing model at the protocol level. Therefore, Connection Multiplexing is most valuable for HTTP v1.0.