Configuring load balancing

Use load balancing for distributing service requests from Rational ClearQuest Web clients across multiple WebSphere Application Server instances that are running ClearQuest Web server.
Important: WebSphere Application Server supports two types of load-balanced configurations: horizontal clustering and vertical clustering. A horizontal cluster comprises two or more physical computers. In contrast, a vertical cluster has cluster members on the same physical computer. Rational ClearQuest Web supports only horizontal clustering. In a WebSphere Application Server horizontal cluster configuration of ClearQuest Web, ClearQuest Web requests are distributed across all the load-balanced servers in the deployment. For more information about horizontal clustering, see the WebSphere Application Server Information Center (V8.0, V8.5).

There is extensive information about load balancing in the IBM WebSphere Application Server help topics. Bear in mind the following points when reading those topics:

To configure simple load balancing using a web server plug-in configuration file, refer to the help topics that are listed below.
For information about configuring load balancing by using the Load Balancer component of WebSphere Application Server Edge, see the next topics:

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