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Deployment Planning Guide > Load Balancing and Resilient Processing Planning > Choosing a Load Balancing MethodSiebel supports two load balancing methods: Siebel load balancing and third-party HTTP load balancers. For a description of these two methods see About Load Balancing. Siebel load balancing and third-party HTTP load balancers provide similar features. Table 8 compares key characteristics of Siebel load balancing with those of third-party HTTP load balancers. In the table, SISNAPI is the Siebel protocol used to communicate with Siebel Servers. General guidelines. Third-party HTTP load balancers are a good choice when any of the following is true:
Siebel Load balancing distributes user login requests in a round robin fashion, which works best if all servers are configured equally and have similar capacities:
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