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Eray_27463
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Aug 27, 2007

Load Balancing Concepts

I want to understand load balancer terminology better, for example I don't quite get the following terms;   selfip, node,pool, load balancing pool, virtualserver,virtualnode, node, pool member, VLA...
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Aug 28, 2007
Check out the docs here:

 

 

https://tech.f5.com/home/bigip-next/manuals/

 

 

I believe the Configuration Guide is the one you'll want. It has chapters on each of those objects/terms.