Load Balancing

It is a good practise to perform load balancing for proxying requests from clients, and routing them to engines running the appropriate component. Load balancing is achieved through mappings between relative URLs and components.

VirtualRouter

VirtualRouter is load balancer Silver Fabric, for HTTP enabled components. An instance of VirtualRouter runs by default on each Silver Fabric broker, and can also run externally. Additionally, VirtualRouter maintains HTTP Session mappings between clients and WebSphere servers by examining the standard JSESSIONID cookie. For more information about using VirtualRouter, see the Silver Fabric Cloud Administration Guide.

WebSphere Web Server Plug-in

You can use WebSphere Application Server’s Web Server Plug-in with Silver Fabric. Refer to your version specific WebSphere documentation for installation and setup of the Web Server plug-in, and to automatically propagate the Plug-in configuration.