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Brian_Saunders1
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Nov 21, 2013
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GTM Global Availability Load Balancing to Down Pool

Hey All,   I've been working on configuring Wide IPs utilizing the Global Availability setting. I have two LTMs configured as servers on the GTM with the bigip monitor applied, so the GTM knows t...
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  • Bhanu_9561's avatar
    Bhanu_9561
    Nov 21, 2013

    I would expect that to work.

     

    This is how I implement it. Can you instead create just one pool with the two Virtual Servers in it? Associate this one pool to the Wide IP. At the pool level have the settings of Global Availability, Round Robin and Return to DNS. This configuration should achieve the functionality.

     

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Bhanu_9561
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Nov 21, 2013

I would expect that to work.

 

This is how I implement it. Can you instead create just one pool with the two Virtual Servers in it? Associate this one pool to the Wide IP. At the pool level have the settings of Global Availability, Round Robin and Return to DNS. This configuration should achieve the functionality.

 

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    Brian_Saunders1
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    Nov 21, 2013
    Bhanu - thanks for your assistance. After re-configuring the wide ip as you suggested and adding the two virtuals to the pool it worked as expected!