APPLICATION SERVER INSTANCE SELECTION BASED ON PROTOCOL LATENCY INFORMATION

摘要

A capability is provided for performing application service instance selection for applications based on protocol latency information in a virtualized environment. The virtualized environment includes host computers that host virtual machines, which in turn host guest operating systems, which in turn host application server instances associated with one or more applications. The virtualized environment uses a load balancer to balance application traffic for an application across the application server instances associated with the application. The load balancer determines protocol latency information associated with protocol message exchanges between the load balancer and guest operating systems hosting the application server instances. The load balancer receives application processing requests from application clients of the application and selects between the application server instances of the application for the application processing requests based on the protocol latency information.