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Steven_J__Willi
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Apr 27, 2014

Node vs. Member

After going through F5 university and reading from docs, I am still struggling with the difference of Node vs. Member and when to use one or the other when determining the LB method. Does any one hav...
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nathe
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Apr 27, 2014

Steven,

 

Node is just the server IP address, for example. Whilst Member will be Node + port.

 

You may have two pools, an http one and an ftp one. Both pools have the same pool members, for example. So, to decide between Node or Member for load balancing you would ask yourself, do you care if pool member A, for example, is serving multiple FTP requests when you deliver HTTP traffic to it. If you would rather this was taken into account then Node would be the answer, if you don't then using Member would just care about current http requests to a pool member, disregarding how many ftp connections there are.

 

Does this make sense?

 

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