Management of pool members behind LTM

If you're doing large transfers of data that don't need to be load balanced (like backups), a separate management NIC on each server would save passing all that traffic through LTM. It's also nice to know that if there is an LTM issue you'll still be able to get to the servers directly. Load balanced clients couldn't be on the admin network though, or I think most servers would use the admin interface to respond back directly to the clients. I don't think you need to use nPath or change the load balancing configuration to do this. Worst case, you might need to use a network device to do source address translation of the admin traffic before it gets to the servers.

 

 

Also, make sure to not change the default gateway on the servers to the admin gateway.

 

 

Aaron