Oracle Weblogic Load Balancing/Clustering

Can anyone tell me what the recommendation from Oracle is on how to best set up load balancing?
We currently use the configuration.properties file to identify the 2 servers we load balance. We will be implementing additional servers in the near future and we were wondering if this is the best way to load balance 4 or more weblogic servers or if there is some other way.
We set up one cluster address to utilize these servers and use a separate hardware load balancer device.
HRDEV\webserv\hrdev\applications\peoplesoft\PORTAL.war\WEB-INF\psftdocs\hrdev\configuration.properties
# To enable jolt failover and load balancing, provide a list of application server
# domains in the format of; psserver=AppSrvr:JSLport,...
# For example: psserver=SERVER1:9000,SERVER2:9010,SERVER3:9020

As this is peoplesoft specific configuration
Please try positing here:
https://community.oracle.com/community/oracle-applications/peoplesoft_enterprise/peoplesoft_general_discussion?customTheme=otn
Best Regards
Luz

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