IBM FileNet P8, Version 5.2.1              

Load balancing and farming

You can use load balancers to manage client requests across all of the nodes in a FileNet® P8 server farm.

Farming requires a mechanism to balance the load across all the nodes in a farm, and to redirect client connections to surviving nodes in case of failure. This section summarizes the available load balancing options.

A number of hardware and software load-balancing products are available for server farm configurations, including IBM®, Oracle, F5 Big IP, and JBoss.

Table 1. Tested load-balancing/farming solutions
Vendor Notes®
Oracle WebLogic Server clusters -
F5 Big IP -
IBM WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment clusters Formerly called server group of clones.
JBoss Application Server cluster Also called High Availability partition.
Important: Layer 7 load balancers are supported in FileNet P8, but the header or packet modification capabilities of layer 7 load balancers have not been tested and should be used with caution.


Last updated: October 2015
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