Load balancer requirements

In most production deployments, it is desirable to configure a load balancer in front of the cluster. This topic discusses the considerations for this load balancer.

The following diagram shows a typical configuration for a multi-node cluster. This configuration contains two load balancers:

This topic discusses the load balancer in front of the cluster (the load balancer with the callout):

For this load balancer, the following considerations apply:

For information on configuring the data sources in Studio that allow access to any node in the cluster through a load balancer, and access to the leader node for sending updating requests, see the Oracle Endeca Information Discovery Studio User's Guide.