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kevin_49292
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May 02, 2014

irule: load balance connections for diff pools

Hi   I have a situation were I need to send 50% of traffic to one pool & the rest 50% traffic to a diff pool ( i.e, 1st conn - pool A, 2nd conn pool B 3rd pool A 4th pool B.....) 2) is if the Pool...
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nitass
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May 28, 2014

we are looking to add one more logic to the above irule. ie, Active connections for POOL A + POOL C = POOL B + POOL D( more or less equal to)

 

you may be able to track active connection using irule but i think it is better to use built-in load balancing algorithm. anyway, as you may know, it is independent in each tmm instance.

 

sol6406: Overview of Least Connections, Fastest, Observed, and Predictive load balancing modes

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/400/sol6406.html

 

sol14358: Overview of Clustered Multiprocessing (11.3.0 and later)

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/14000/300/sol14358.html

 

just my 2 cents.