Administering the Genero Application Server / Load balancing |
Load balancing sessionless requests among several GAS instances does not require any particular knowledge of the incoming request.
Generally, the load balancing tool offers rules to do sessionless load balancing by itself. Depending on the tool, those rules may go from a simple round-robin algorithm to more sophisticated ones like choosing a server according to the available memory or to the time that it takes to respond to a network request.
Figure 1. Sessionless Request Processing
Figure 1shows the processing of a sessionless request. It takes the following steps: