A technician would like to ensure that when users connect to a web server in a server farm, they connect to the server with the lowest CPU utilization. Which of the following technologies would…

Load balancing specifically uses algorithms, such as least connection or least response time, to direct client requests to the server with the most available resources, like lowest CPU utilization, ensuring efficient distribution of workload. This improves responsiveness and reliability by preventing any single server from becoming a bottleneck.

High availability ensures that a system remains operational despite component failures but doesn't inherently manage resource-based traffic distribution like lowest CPU utilization.

A virtual machine is a software-based emulation of a physical computer and does not inherently distribute traffic based on server utilization in a farm.

A reverse proxy acts as an intermediary for client requests for resources from backend servers, providing security, caching, or SSL termination, but it typically forwards requests to a single backend server or uses basic round-robin distribution, not dynamic utilization metrics.