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Rcolbert25
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Sep 11, 2019

Load Balancing Customization for Wide IP

In all of the Load Balancing Methods there seems to be a common theme that the top or primary Pool member will get most of the connections. Whether it be global availability where the top pool member...
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alex100
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Sep 11, 2019

Hi Rcolbert25. This does not sound right. If you are not getting even distribution of connections among your pool members there are few things to look at. Doe's your virtual server have persistence enabled and if so what kind. In general, when persistence is enabled Big-IP will not make a load balancing decision on persistent connections. Also, there is not such concept as primary or secondary pool member unless explicitly configured. I would check where Priority Group Activation enabled and configured on the pool.