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Deployment Planning Guide > Siebel Infrastructure Planning > Choosing a Load Balancing MethodSiebel Systems 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 4 compares key characteristics of Siebel load balancing with third-party HTTP load balancers. In the table, SISNAPI is the Siebel protocol used to communicate with Siebel Servers. Load Balancing GuidelinesThird-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. Other considerations include the following:
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