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santsboy_145140
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Mar 15, 2014
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GTM and LTM

Hi,   we are building twin DCs and we load balance traffic between both Active/Active DCs. I have seen that the best practice is to have in each DC 1 GTM acting as a DNS Server and DC selector and...
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  • Cory_50405's avatar
    Cory_50405
    Mar 17, 2014

    I hope I answered this in one of your other threads that I commented on. Just to recap, GTM will respond to DNS queries with the virtual server IP address(es) on the LTM. The LTM will be responsible for determining which VM to send the end user traffic to, via whatever health checks and load balancing methods it is configured to use.

     

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Cory_50405
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Mar 17, 2014

I hope I answered this in one of your other threads that I commented on. Just to recap, GTM will respond to DNS queries with the virtual server IP address(es) on the LTM. The LTM will be responsible for determining which VM to send the end user traffic to, via whatever health checks and load balancing methods it is configured to use.