Hi -
We are looking to deploy our app, running on Tomcat 5, soon and are exploring load balancing options. We are looking at H/W and S/W solutions, and I was wondering if anyone had any past experience/advice they would like to share.
Our deployment is as pretty run-of-the-mill as it gets: 2 machines, each running Tomcat. We would like to avoid replicating state (since we have a lot of state in these apps, for reasons beyond our current control). Even in-memory session replication would not be option here, so we're punting on the Tomcat cluster solution.
Our only other requirement is that the LB solution support sticky SSL sessions. I know that H/W LB (like Coyote Point Equalizer and Cisco LocalDirector) can do the LB + SSL acceleration, which I believe would do the job.
However, I would be interested to know if there is a S/W LB solution that people would recommend as an alternative. It would need to support sticky SSL sessions -- the only solution I know that can do that is Windows Network Load Balancing. I'm assuming that Tomcat's basic balancer app *does not* support sticky SSL sessions, though I cannot confirm that based on available documentation.
What do people do who want to balance SSL sessions across Tomcat servers?
Thanks very much for your feedback,
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