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NimbostratusHow to setup F5 Big-IP LTM for Weblogic on different ports, same IP
Hi Everyone,
I am a Weblogic/Oracle DB administrator. Currently we are establishing our web application on a Weblogic Cluster using two redundant Big-IP 1600 LTM devices. We have a 9-node Weblog...
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NimbostratusActually we have had a lot of problems with our previous F5 consultant, he claimed that we cannot have different ports on one IP for service because F5 does not translate the port, just the IP, so we had to add more NICs and use the same port for each of our Virtual instances of Weblogic which created a bunch of problems for us.
By the way, will there be any consideration for Load balancing and failover when we have separate pools with the same pool member? Or it just works fine?
- Hi aLuViAn, by default a virtual server (of type host) does both address and port translation. It is possible, to combine servers with same IP but different ports in the same pool. Depending on load balancing method and persistence settings incoming traffic will be forwarded to the available pool members and destination address and port translation will be applied. Persistence records will be set accordingly. Perhaps I misunderstood your question. But I don´t see a reason to create multiple virtual servers and pools. And as NikhilB already pointed out, it is possible as well use the same pool member address-port combinations simultaneously in multiple pools. Thanks, Stephan
