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Skuba_85554
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Nov 09, 2010

multiple virtual servers vs irules!

hi everyone     this is quite a straight-forward question: generally speaking, in terms of big ip performance, is it better to use a single virtual server which distributes traffic to multiple p...
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George_Watkins_
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Nov 09, 2010
Hi,

 

 

Any time you involve layer 7 inspection, you are going to take a performance hit. If you have multiple IPs available and are worried about BIG-IP performance, I would create separate virtuals.

 

 

-George