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rpalacios_79340
Altostratus
AltostratusLoad Balancing Method
Hello Guys,
I've been presented with an odd request at work. Let me start of by providing some basic description of our environment. We have two datacenters. Our primary DC is here in S...
Hamish
Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusYou could run the LB's in a kind of reverse configuration from normal.
Assuming you don't mind SNAT, run the LB's as a local proxy. All machines would then talk to a local address for MySQL. The LB's then look after whether the traffic goes to the load or the remete MySQL server, and send the traffic to the relevant endpoint. Whether you doit with a pool and priority members, or 2 pools and an iRule to select them is a matter of design (Using 2 pools you could automate it via iControl based on datagroup/class values).
