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Shane_Terrick_9
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Dec 16, 2013

Load Balancing WIP across LTMs at 2 datacenters

I am trying to load balance a WIP(app.company.com) across two LTMs across 2 data centers. This is to allow for DR/failover without any manual intervention. So I built out my VIPs on the 2 LTMs,then ...
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Shane_Terrick_9
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Dec 16, 2013

All VIPs status' are ok on the GTM

 

The only Listener I have created is the self-ip of the GTM

 

Should i have had my DNS team create the Network DNS records for the app.company.com address to point to this listener IP address instead of the VIPs IP address?

 

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Jason_40733
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Dec 16, 2013
It sounds like your DNS team is still handling DNS for the domain "company.com". We created a sub-domain "gtm.company.com" and had our normal DNS point to our GTM listeners for any DNS requests for the "gtm.company.com" domain. With that in place, we create entries like "app.company.com" in our normal DNS as a CNAME for "app.gtm.company.com". This gets the DNS request to our GTM and our GTM load balances appropriately ( Remember to set your DNS TTL to your needs ).