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davec_20224
Nimbostratus
Feb 08, 2011Node 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...
hoolio
Cirrostratus
Feb 09, 2011Hi Dave,
My thinking is that if one service on the node requires a lot of resources, you wouldn't want the node to receive a lot of traffic on the second service. One way to avoid that would be to use a load balancing algorithm that takes into account the nodes membership in multiple pools.
If you were actually monitoring node resource utilization in a dynamic load balancing algorithm, this would be less relevant. But if you're just sending packets for multiple services that have varying resource requirements, I think it makes sense to use a node method instead of a pool member method.
Aaron
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