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davec_20224
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Feb 08, 2011

Node or member version of load balancing method?

Platform: BIG-IP LTM 6400 Active/Standby HA pair   SW: 10.2.0     I understand the difference between the node and member versions of load balancing methods. The part I'm missing is under wh...
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Feb 09, 2011
Aaron,

 

 

After discussing with a colleague, I think we came to the opposite conclusion. For the case of two services with different resource requirements, you would want to balance at the pool level so you get an even distribution of both services across the servers. For the case of two services with similar resource requirements, using node based balancing would be OK because even if it turns out that each server is handling requests for only one of the services, the load is evenly distributed.

 

 

Is there a flaw in this logic?

 

 

Thanks,

 

Dave C.