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bijulsoni_11500's avatar
bijulsoni_11500
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Apr 17, 2013

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 ...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Apr 17, 2013
Bijul Soni is correct. There is a (roughly) 100k entry limitation to data groups today. That, I'm told, will change very soon. In the mean time you have a few options:

 

 

1. Create multiple data groups - if you can logically separate the data this may be a good option.

 

 

2. Load the data group values into a table. Tables can support much more data, so you could use an "admin" virtual server and iRule that consumes the data from a client side script (via form post). You may still want to logically separate the data into multiple tables so that they can be spread across multiple TMMs.

 

 

3. Configure a DNS server to serve TXT records and use RESOLVE::lookup in your iRule.

 

 

4. Use sideband processing to call a web server. This may be a slower option, but I think it gives you the most flexibility in querying the data.