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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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Hamish
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Aug 13, 2012
I prefer to deploy GTM's as authoritative for a SEPARATE domain... e.g. dynamic.domian.com not domain.com. Then to implement a GTM hosted address, get everything all setup and tested as site.dynamic.domain.com and simply flip site.domain.com from a A record to a CNAME site.dynamic.domain.com

 

 

Best of all worlds then... GTM only services GTM addresses. Easy test and fallback. etc etc.

 

 

Oh... GTM doesn't need to even be at your site. It simply needs to be able to monitor the devices providing the balanced services. A minimum of two should however be provided of course.

 

 

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