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SynACk_128568
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Jun 21, 2014

Hi ,

 

1) Gtm provides intelligent load balancing/DNS which for which it will reference the pool and give resolution accordingly .

 

GTM will listen for dns request on listener ip defined on the GTM .

 

And there sholud be connectivity between self ip of the GTM 's so that can communicate through iquery .

 

"How is traffic load balanced at the global level - is it just a case of users automatically connect to their nearest GTM?" For this type of load balancing you can set Topology based load balancing .

 

what's the purpose of the GTM's having visibility of each other? GTM need to communicate with each other if they are in sync group or meaning that they are sharing configuration . To keep config in sync , to know state of the other devices etc if it is statndlone and are not depend on the other GTM's it is not necessary .

 

GTM will be load balancing according to the poad balancing method which you have set .