Load Balancing and Web Images /Thumbimages/Thumbnails

We are planning to introduce Load balancing in our server environment. Our site has lots of thumbnails (Thumbimages) to get display开发者_运维百科ed on the website. As all the images should be there under Web directory to get displayed on web site, do I need to maintain these TNs in all the servers?

Is there any other way to accomplish this?

Yes, put the images on all the servers. That's the best way of load balancing because it requires less logic to be performed by the load balancer (i.e. no packet inspection) so is fast. Use rsync or similar to keep the images in sync on all nodes.

Just create a central network share for the images. Then point all the web servers to that network shared images folder. The load balancer is just directing the page request to a web server which then loads the images from a network shared folder. So my conclusion is that there is no load balancing logic required for images?