About Load Balancing
  • 24 Aug 2022
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Article Summary

Load balancers are commonly deployed when multiple application servers are used with Decisions. A load balancer acts as a primary point of contact so that all application servers appear the same to end-users.

Load balancers internally route data to each of the servers in a Cluster-based upon criteria configured at the load balancer. The following document discusses and explains common uses for a load balancer in Decisions-based server architecture. 

IMPORTANT
Decisions requires STICKY SESSIONS for load balancer configuration to make sure a user's session interacts with the same server within the cluster for the duration of the session.

If available, Cookie Based Session Persistence is recommended; this uses a cookie to uniquely identify a session and later reference that cookie to push the connection to the appropriate server. 


SSL Termination

The use of SSL Termination at the load balancer is recommendedIf HTTP Redirect is being used, it must be configured at the load balancer, not on the Decisions Servers. 


The following sections outline the requirements for each specific configuration.

Backend Pool of VMs with IIS/Decisions Application

  • Configured as a Decisions Cluster
  • No SSL Termination on the IIS side (termination is completed on the AAG)
    • SSL Offloading
    • Increased performance from backend pool to AAG

Azure Application Gateway

  • SSL Termination
  • HealthCheck configuration
  • HTTP/HTTPS redirect/rules configuration
  • HTTP/2
  • Requires separate Virtual Networks within the same address space of the backend pool
  • Cookie Session Affinity configuration

Decisions Configuration Supporting AAG

  • Requires configuration for Cookie Affinity

For further information on Installation, visit the Decisions Forum.

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