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Riley_Schuit_82
Historic F5 Account
Nov 19, 2014

A standard virtual server will keep track of the state of it's sessions. You are not going to get around needing to re-establish a session to the new server when it is used. You can set priority groups to your pool to allow new sessions to go back to the pool member with higher priority.

 

Manual Chapter: Pools https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-concepts-11-2-0/ltm_pools.html

 

tl;dr: If the number of available members assigned to the highest priority group drops below the number that you specify, Local Traffic Manager distributes traffic to the next highest priority group, and so on.