You can use different load-balancing strategies to manage requests to the Content Platform Engine, clients, and the database.
Content Platform Engine is stateless and supports both hardware and software load balancers.
Depending on which of the two transports the client applications use to Content Platform Engine, certain restrictions apply. This table outlines the types of load balancing that can be used with Content Platform Engine for each transport.
Content Platform Engine clients | Hardware load balancing (all protocols) | Application Server load balancing | HTTP-plugin load balancing | Network Load Balancing feature in Windows Server |
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Web Services clients (CEWS transport: HTTP) |
Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Java clients (EJB transport: IIOP/T3/JNP) | No (see Important note later in this section.) | Yes | No | No |
IBM® Administration Console for Content Platform Engine and other administrative applications | No | No | No | No |
When Oracle RAC is used as the database service, load balancing is provided through the built-in capabilities of both the Oracle RAC client and SQL NET.