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Peter_Casey_716
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Aug 13, 2012

F5 Global Traffic Manager

Hi folks,     I have been asked to look into, and prepare a paper on the implementation of a global load balancing solution for our two data centres, one based in Manchester, UK & the other base...
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Aug 13, 2012
Hi Peter,

 

 

You're correct that you should ideally have one GTM per data center. If the GTM fails or critical resources in a datacenter fail the affected WideIPs will be resolved to a data center that has the virtual servers available. This is DNS based load balancing so there isn't really a concept of active connections. Depending on the WideIP load balancing algorithm you can enable persistence and mirroring of the persistence records.

 

 

If you want more specific recommendations I recommend you contact an F5 or partner SE to discuss your exact requirements.

 

 

Aaron