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Mark_Bell_98620
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Dec 15, 2010

Attempting to Set WideIP Ratio

Hi,     Got a query on attempting to set the ratio for the Wide IP in our F5 GTM setup. Using the Perl script on F5 examples I am able to change the pool member ratio with the GlobalLB.PoolMembe...
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JRahm
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Dec 31, 2010
No worries. As for all viewers, with LTM, lb_method is only a pool level attribute. In GTM, you can establish an lb_method at the pool level and then also at the wideIP level. So you may want to be evenly distributed within a datacenter but send 80% of your traffic to one datacenter over another because of capacity or cost. Having the two levels adds greater flexibility in your global lb solution.