Maximum entries in Data group

Hi

I have a question about F5's capability to support maximum entries in Data-group. Based upon the documenation on F5, I found that F5 can support maximum 100K entries into data group. In our usage of F5, we are about to reach that limit soon. We use data group entries to do Host-Name to Pool routing and because of 100K limitation on data group, we are not able to scale considering we still have capacity but F5's data group size is becoming the bottleneck.

I feel that there may be some innovative ways to overcome this limiation but because of my lack of knowledge in F5 worlds, I am running out of options. Appreciate if someone can reply with possible alternatives to overcome this. We use In-memory datagroups. we haven't tried external data group and not sure what's max limit for external file but I am OK to expore any alternative.

Appreciate your reply.

Thanks

Bijul Soni