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Othman_Othman_3's avatar
Othman_Othman_3
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May 15, 2018

File share service architecture under the load balance LTM

We are implementing VS for file share service SMB, and would like to know the best approach for the setup.

 

Since the system owner would like to have mirror connection toward the servers (nodes).

 

Traffic flow will be user -> LTM VP -> traffic will be sent to both nodes same copy. Is it applicable?

 

and if not what is the best approach to achieve the ideal setup for the file share.

 

application delivery
BIG-IP
LTM
  • Simon_Blakely's avatar
    Simon_Blakely
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    May 15, 2018

    Traffic flow will be

     

    user -> LTM VP -> traffic will be sent to both nodes same copy.

     

    Is it applicable?

     

    No. The LTM directs traffic from the client to one of the available pool members, not multiple members.

     

    There is a clone pool feature that does copy packets directed to a pool member, but this is for passive packet monitoring (Intrusion detection or capture), and cannot be used for traffic replication of the type you seem to expect.