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Jason_Peery_467's avatar
Jason_Peery_467
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Apr 30, 2012

Guidelines for pointing to one web server with many Virtual Sites

Hi all, am looking for advice, suggestions, or reference to best practice for fronting a single web server, with many virtual sites with a BigIP LTM. Do I just set up a virtual server for each site a...
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Hamish's avatar
Hamish
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Apr 30, 2012
Software virtual servers? As in multiplexed by name? If so, it's one VS...

 

 

If your VS's are differentiated by IP or port, I'd use multiple VS's myself... Until at some point it gets onerous with too many VS's (And your threshold will vary here) and replace it with one VS again that uses either port 0 or a network VS for multiple IP's and use an iRule to dispatch to the correct pool.

 

 

Or did you mean a single physical web server and it's running multiple copies of apache on different IP's or ports... In which case I'd go with option 2 above again...

 

 

Sorry to be unclear, but the question was a bit wide open as to what you mean by 'virtual sites'.

 

 

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