wowchens
Jun 22, 2009Nimbostratus
Persistence Help
Hello:
I have a special requirement for setting up persistence using LTM but having difficulties achieving load balancing and persistence at the same time. Application is .Net Remoting which is a thick client app that runs on Citrix and makes http calls to backend application servers(IIS). Traffic is binary in nature and http is used only as a transport mechanism. I need to loadbalance the traffic and also stick clients to same pool member. I tried source address persistence but the app is hosted on Citrix so all the connections end up on only one server at all times and other servers are not used at all. I have looked at coming up a cookie hash based persistence but since the traffic is binary, there are no header parameters that are unique which can be used for maintaining stickyness.
Most of the options I tried works but I am able to achieve only one thing, either persistence or load balancing, not both.
I am not sure of any other option that I can use here. I don't know if this is even possible to achieve.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks--Chenna