Lesser of two evils: 2,500 pools or one pool with 10,000 members?

Hi Evan,

 

 

There aren't any hard limits on members per pool or total numbers of pools. But at some point, management of the LTM will become slow. This depends on the total number of objects in the config as well as the platform's CPU and memory specs. Doing perf testing on a test unit is the best way to determine what impact the size of the config will have on traffic processing and manageability.

 

 

Do all of the servers on a single IP need to be up for a single server to be considered available? If so, a pool per server would make the most sense with monitors that have hardcoded destination ports assigned to each member. If not, I'd guess one big pool would be slightly more efficient than a lot of small pools.

 

 

If you could have all servers listening on the same ports and clients make requests to the same destination port as the servers listen on, you could potentially use a single pool member per server IP on port 0 and avoid doing port translation.

 

 

Aaron