Load Balancing

This property page lets you balance the workload required to support the application. With load balancing enabled, Novell^® Application Launcher^TM pulls the application files from all servers offering the application, ensuring a more balanced workload across servers.

To use load balancing, you must first have multiple installation package sources or Application objects defined for the application, with the application source files located on different servers. When a user launches the application, Application Launcher selects one of the package sources or Application objects to use. If the package source or Application object is unavailable, Application Launcher selects another one.

Enable Load Balancing
Check this option to enable load balancing. The other load balancing options are available only if this option is enabled.

For Application objects that use Microsoft* Windows* Installer (.msi) packages, the Enable Load Balancing option is the only option that is enabled on this page; the Use Source List and Use Application List options are disabled. To enable load balancing for an MSI Application object, select this option and then use the Application object's Sources page (Common tab) to define the list of source locations where you've created additional installation packages. Application Launcher randomly selects source locations from the list to balance the workload.

Use Source List
Select this option to have Application Launcher use a list of package sources for load balancing. You must have already created at least one package source (Common > Sources page). This option is not available on Application objects for Terminal Server applications or Web applications.

Add
Click Add, browse to and select a package source, then click OK to add it to the Source List.

Delete
Select a package source from the Source List, then click Delete to remove it from the Source List.

Use Application List
Select this option to have Application Launcher use a list of Application objects for load balancing. You must have already created additional Application objects for the application, with the application files being stored on a different server or volume than this application.

Add
Click Add, browse to and select an Application object, then click OK to add it to the Application List.

Delete
Select an Application object from the Application List, then click Delete to remove it from the Application List.

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