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S_Timmerman_163
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Jul 17, 2014

Deployment strategy for daytime deployment

Hi all,   I am new to using F5 LTM for load balancing, and have been tasked with setting up a deployment strategy that enables us to do daytime deployment.   We have a pool of 100 webservers. W...
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MVA
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Jul 17, 2014

I'd suggest looking at one of the connection based load balancing methods available on the LTM, such as Least Connections. You'll also need to decide how to "disable" the 10%; long or quicker connection drain - see node State, either Disabled or Forced Offline for details. The drain process will also depend on your application, so test.

 

We've done similar on Exchange CAS servers; disable them at the node level so they are disabled in pools, maintenance, re-enable, move onto next batch.

 

Hope this helps.