Difference between load balancing and clustering

[Former Member]

We r in a dilemma whether to use load balancing or clustering on the production server. i don't have enough knowledge on load balancing or clustering.if any one can tell me the pros and cons of these two and which will be the best option to choose among these two.

One more thing is how to do load balancing on the production server

[former_member142702 · Accepted solution]

Clustering in BO means that the BO services are distributed on several nodes but are using a single file and DB repository and therefore this is considered to be a single BO system.

Applying clustering in BO means that load-balancing and fail-over capabilities are available (automatically) for the BO users at BO services level.

Regarding the web servers clustering is possible but this functionality is not in the scope of the Business Objects products. At this level clustering (and therefore load balancing) is implemented with vendor specific technologies.

Regards,

Stratos

[former_member142702 · Accepted solution]

The setup of a BOBJ cluster is described in the administrator's guide.

Regards,

Stratos

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

That means if we do clustering on the servers( for ex prod , dr servers) the load-balancing and fail-over capabilities, are they available automatically.

[former_member142702 · Accepted solution]

Yes. Please note that "fail over" at BO services level means that although active jobs may be terminated the next job originated from a user's session will be assigned to an available server.

Regards,

Stratos