How I can weigh the traffic to two servers on the F5?

Hi Jason,

 

 

Do you need to persist the web server to app server connections or requests? This would potentially affect the overall ratio of requests to the app servers. If you do need persistence, you could use UIE persistence on a client to web server token.

 

 

If you don't need persistence between the web and app servers, you could just set a ratio on the app server pool. The ratio values can be any integer. For simple calculations, 3 for one server and 7 for the other server would equate to 30% and 70% of connections.

 

 

Aaron

Hi Jason.

 

 

I've also had good results with dynamic ratios... The ratios themselves can then be updated on the fly via iControl (Or at the command line) to adjust the load. It's a reasonably simple task then to write something that will let you later that in response to a request (Or even in response to the dynamic load on the servers).

 

 

H

For this application the only persistence that is set up is from the client to the web servers and that is set to persistence via source ID at 30mins. When the client is on the site and there is a call to the load balanced servers for the SSRS site via a URL setting in the Main Site config file, the traffic for SSRS goes thru the F5 and there is no persistence set on the SSRS pool.

 

 

So do I understand correctly that I only have to update the ratio on the SSRS pool which is were I need to weigh the traffic to the SSRS server?

 

 

Thanks

 

Jason