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Roman_Romalis
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May 29, 2014

GTM persistence with load balancing

We have an enclosed validation environment which forces clients to use the same local DNS. We're running round robin on the GTM, and after turning on persistence all the clients are being sent to onl...
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Cory_50405
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May 29, 2014

It sounds like you aren't going to be able to have the persistence at the DNS level and balance connections equally across your data centers. The GTM won't be able to distinguish between requests of clients if they all appear to be coming from the same source (same LDNS) from GTM's perspective.