Load balancers and Guidewire applications

In general, Guidewire supports load balancing of user interface server requests, to the extent that load balancers support session affinity. It is more difficult to load balance SOAP calls because the SOAP standard does not provide a standard way to track session state across requests. However, some load balancers support IP affinity, which allows for very coarse load balancing of SOAP requests on a per-system basis. PolicyCenter supports both sessionless and sessioned SOAP calls, the latter of which require IP affinity.

See also

• User session replication
• Batch process prioritization
• Component load balancing