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Failover and Load Balancing

BusinessObjects Enterprise supports the clustering of your web application server. Hardware or software load balancers can be used as the entry-point for the web application servers to ensure that the processing is evenly distributed among servers.

The following hardware load balancers are currently supported:

• Cisco Content Services Switches (CSS)
• Cisco Content Switching Modules (CSM)
• The F5 BIG-IP family of load balancers

The following persistence types are currently supported:

• Source IP address persistence
• Cookie persistence Insert mode (ArrowPoint Cookie)

Note: Web services applications are currently not supported with cookie persistence. The CMC application does not support session failover. However, InfoView is fault-tolerant, and does support session failover, so users do not notice if a cluster node fails.