Multi-tier application - Maintaining persistence/state

Are both the tier 1 and tier 2 VIP's hosted on the same BIGIP?

 

 

To reiterate, it sounds like you want the persistence to be applied jointly to both tiers. So, in example, when a new client comes in, they are load balanced to a webserver, and then in turn load balanced to a Tomcat server. However, when the same client returns, they are persisted to both the same webserver and Tomcat server? Is this correct?

 

 

This sounds like it would work just fine by using universal persistence on the JSESSIONID cookie at both tiers. An example of that can be found in this posting: Click here

 

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