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ra3ac_138315
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May 10, 2014

LTM - load balancing to the same web server

Hi,   I'm hoping someone has had the same scenario.   We have two identical web servers. The web servers host multiple sites which uses the same IP and a URL to differentiate the pages. I hav...
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ra3ac_138315
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May 10, 2014

That's my rational, seems a lot of work for no real gain.

 

So to clarify, create one virtual server with no attached pools, then create multiple pools with the same members and a monitor specific to that site. Then create an iRule to redirect the connection to a virtual server to a specific pool via the host header. Would have to lab it but seems logical - only thing is the virtual server would be down as it has no pool members, would have to lab it to see if it would work.

 

Thanks for the advice, really appreciated.