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The Abiquo API can be balanced amongst several servers to spread load and increase service capacity. As you know, Abiquo provides an HTML5 client application that runs on your browser that interacts with the API to operate the cloud.

So, as As the UI is a regular HTML app, there may be several options to balance both the UI and the API.

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This document covers a setup sample for an Abiquo UI and Abiquo API balanced cluster.

  • It 's is the user's responsibility decide to choose the best setup and optimize LoadBalancer configurations which fits better its requirements.

API plus UI cluster

In this setup, we are spreading the load amongst a cluster of nodes running both API and UI. Please note that any API clustered setup REQUIRES using zookeeper to workZookeeper.
For the sake of simplicity, we are using a two node setup, but this is easily scalable to several nodes and using Apache web server as a load balancer.

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