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krishna_52364
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Oct 24, 2011

Difference between BIGIP-LTM and BIG-IP GTM

All,     I am new to F5 Load balancing GTM and LTM. I would like to know the difference between LTM and GTM and what they serve for?     Thanks    
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fereidoun_17514
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Jan 30, 2019

But sounds defeating the purpose, if all requests go to GTM1 and it is the GTM1's job to decide where to send the request, then anything going to DC2 will have extra delay equal to talking to GTM1 and then re-rooted to GTM2 ? It sounds better if there was a separate GTM who's job would be to load balance between two or more DCs without the need for a separate GTM in each DC, just a LTM in each DC.!!!! Am I wrong.???