Load balancing

Load balancing is the distribution of the task load across multiple instances of an application. A basic system configuration typically supports a user load of 50 users or less. A clustered configuration can support a larger user load.

User load comes from users who are logged in. Nonuser load comes from scheduled jobs (cron tasks) and incoming transactions from the integration framework. It is optional to distribute user load and nonuser load to different application servers or clusters.

For HTTP traffic, such as system applications, integration post, and so on, software load balancers and hardware load balancers are available. Typically, your application server vendor provides a load balancer option. A hardware load balancer generally provides better performance, but it is an additional expense. See the documentation specific to your application server for additional information.



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