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N_67263
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Sep 12, 2013

difference between persistence on VS and round robin on the pool.

Folks,   When I configure persistence profile on the Virtual Server level I am using source address as 1 hr, which means that for a single source address the Virtual server will send the traffic t...
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nathe
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Sep 12, 2013

Round robin is the load balancing method i.e. connection 1 to pool member 1, connection 2 to pool member 2 etc...and then back again to pool member 1/pool member 2. If you don't have persistence and a returning client accesses the VIP then the load balancing method will kick in and it'll be sent to the relevant pool member accordingly. If you have persitence set (as you mention above) then a returning connection (within the timeframe setup) will bypass the load balancing method and the connection will be put through to whichever pool member you were persisted to originally.

 

Hope this helps,

 

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