This document discusses deploying Accelrys Enterprise Platform (AEP) servers in a load balanced configuration for high availability. It recommends using a staging server to test configurations before deploying to production nodes. All nodes should be configured identically and share storage. A load balancer should be configured to distribute traffic evenly across nodes. Applications need to be packaged and deployed identically to each node to ensure consistency across the load balanced farm. Load balancing improves availability, scalability and performance but requires additional infrastructure and configuration.