Sun Microsystems Portal Server 6 - Manual (Page 108)

Portal Server and Access Manager on Different Nodes
108 Portal Server 6 2005Q1 • Deployment Planning Guide
Figure 5-8 shows configuration allowing authentication throughput coming
from Portal Server to be load-balanced across the two Access Managers.
This configuration could be implemented when the Portal Server resides on a
high-end medium to large server (that is 1 to 4 processors) with a very wide
bandwidth network connection. The Access Managers with the policy and
authentication services could be on two medium-size servers.
Figure 5-8 One Portal Server and Two Access Managers
Portal
Server Load
Balancer
Directory
Server
Directory
Server Access
Manager
Server
Access
Manager
Server