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What is Load Balancer in AEM?
Load Balancing is the practice of distributing the computational load of the website across several instances of AEM. You gain: increased processing power. In practice this means that the Dispatcher shares document requests between several instances of AEM.
What is the role of dispatcher in Web server cluster?
The dispatcher is responsible for distributing requests within a cluster. Depending on the scheme, it can take into account loads on various servers and previous request rates of the clients, in order to choose a particular server.
How are PSMS used in a load balancing environment?
Installing multiple PSMs in an load balancing configuration offers you enhanced availability, improved performance and better utilization of hardware resources compared to an active-passive cluster. The load balancing architecture relies on an external tool that reflects multiple PSM servers as a single IP or DNS address.
How does load balancing and session state configuration work?
Load Balancing And Session State Configuration are techniques for the Application Administrator to divide or distribute the workload evenly across various servers. When multiple servers use this type of environment it is known as Web Farms. So basically farming helps in avoiding overload on…
What do you need to know about load balancing?
They are intended for web applications or other HTTP (S) endpoints. They include features such as SSL offload, web application firewall, path-based load balancing, and session affinity. Non-HTTP/S load-balancing services can handle non-HTTP (S) traffic and are recommended for non-web workloads.
What happens when load balancer goes off in web farm?
In a Web Farm scenario, even if one of the servers stop working or crashes, the application will still work or respond, since other servers are still working, so the only point at which your application can go down is when the Load Balancer goes off.