Load Balancing
OMS itself does not provide any load balancing capability, but any third party load balancer can be used to load balance across multiple instances of OMS. For this, no specific configuration is required. The only requirement is that the load balancer must have support for sticky session. Sticky sessions means the load balancer always directs a given client to the same back-end server.
Hardware Load Balancer (HLB), which has Layer 7 capability, can direct traffic and maintain session persistence for Web applications without relying on the user's IP address with session cookies. Typically, HLB inserts a cookie that the load balancer creates and manages automatically to remember which back-end server a given HTTP connection must use. Then it would always direct the request originating from that client browser to the same server.
Some of the HLBs which support layer 7 capability include:
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