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buzzkiller
Altocumulus
AltocumulusCan session persistence time impact load balancing
Hello, I am encountering an issue where a business owner reports that application traffic is not being balanced as expected. She mentions that when one service is stopped, the F5 system does not red...
eneR
Cirrostratus
CirrostratusWhat kind of application? HTTP Traffic?
If you disable a node on the BIG-IP, persistent session can still connect to this one. When set to Disabled, a node or pool member continues to process persistent and active connections. It can accept new connections only if the connections belong to an existing persistence session.
If the service goes down, e.g. the pool member becomes red because the check fails, the persistence will not create your issue. It will get lb to another available server no matter what kind of persistence you use.
Your issue sounds more like this one. K15095: Overview of the Action On Service Down feature so maybe give reject a try.