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Grant_Mericle_1
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May 04, 2016

Can I set up multiple backend connections to a single server for message-based load balancing

I'm using an iRule with message-based load balancing to partition messages on a single TCP connection into two groups. GroupA goes to poolA and GroupB goes to poolB. The LTM will create a backend...
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May 06, 2016

In my particular case, the server-side connection is going to a node that belongs to a tightly-coupled cluster. This node performs its own connection load balancing between all members of the cluster. So a single server-side connection is only established with one of the cluster nodes. If I were able to force multiple server-side connections then I could make use of all (or at least more) of the cluster nodes.

 

In a simpler case, it's reasonable that a multi-threaded server might have improved performance by servicing incoming messages over multiple connections vs. just one.