Please refer to Chapter 6, The Big Wide World of Spotfire, for a description of a scenario comparing traditional load balancing with Spotfire's intelligent routing schemes.
Scaling of the Web Player infrastructure is achieved by employing intelligent scheduling and routing rules. The rules route users to the most appropriate instance to service their requests. Scheduling and routing rules are configured via the scheduling and routing part of Spotfire's Administration Console (this is accessible via http(s)://spotfireserver/spotfire, where spotfireserver is the name of your Spotfire Server):
Note that Scheduling & Routing configuration is only available to users that are members of the scheduling and routing administrator user group or a general administrator (see Chapter 6, The Big Wide World of Spotfire, for details concerning the Administration...