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title: About entry balancing
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# About entry balancing

Entry balancing allows you to automatically spread entries below a common parent among multiple sets of directory servers for improved scalability and performance.

Entry balancing can take advantage of a global index. A global index is an in-memory cache used for quickly determining which set or sets of servers to use to process a request based on the entry distinguished names (DNs) and attribute values.

For information about configuring entry balancing, see [Deploying an entry-balancing proxy configuration](pd_proxy_deploy_entry_balancing_proxy_config.html).