Question
Virtusa
AU
Last activity: 31 Aug 2016 0:09 EDT
Configuring a Load Balancer for all Pega applications
Hi All,
We have few applications running on 2 nodes - Node1 & Node2. And users are educated to use Node1 for few applications and Node2 for few applications. We have decided have a load balancer and making all the applications to run on both the nodes. For this we have the below 2 phases -
1. To configure the load balancer
2. To make the application HA
As the 2nd step would take a bit more time as our applications are migrated from 6.x to 7.x it still contains the all the depricated controls/ warnings. To implement the Session Affinity and crash recovery etc. we have decided to take it in a 2nd phase as it involves some development effort.
I just want to confirm one thing.. in the 1st phase to have Load Balancer in place what all configurations/settings we need to make the applications Load Balancer ready.
Thanks,
Satya
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Refer to this link: https://docs-previous.pega.com/performance/load-balancing-multi-node-cluster. It also has a link to HA guide - which has a sample using F5 as LB.
Virtusa
AU
Thank you for response Kevin.
We were going through the document when we started. But the document contains HA stuff which we planned to have it in the 2nd phase.
I just wanted to know whether for implementing the LB do we need to have any configurations to be done in the pega applications?
Thanks,
Satya
Pegasystems Inc.
US
The short answer is no - but ensuring sticky sessions from LB. Follow the LB vendor documentation. Most of customers are able to configure LB without any involvement from Pega. What is your LB vendor?