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Shahrzad_84598
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Feb 21, 2015

GTM with or without LTM?

Hi there, I need to know, if we have web servers to publish on web in backup and main data centers, is it a must to have GTM and LTM toghether in every DC, or for example in backup site(which has the...
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nitass_89166
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Feb 21, 2015

you can think gtm is dns server (but intelligence). one gtm is fine but multiple provide load sharing and redundancy.

 

ltm is server load balancer. user traffic does not go through gtm.

 

hope this helps.

 

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Shahrzad_84598
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Feb 22, 2015
Dear nitass, thanks for your reply.It helped a lot. You wrote "one gtm is fine but multiple provide load sharing and redundancy", by "one gtm" do you mean in one DC one GTM is enough, or for the whole scenario, I mean is it possible to have just one gtm for two or more DCs?Or it is a must to have one GTM and one LTM for each Data Center?