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What_Lies_Benea
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Jul 16, 2013

Persistence

OK, I'm not new here, but I've a few newbie questions unfortunately!   I've just been taking a very close look at all the persistence methods available for the first time really. I've nearly alway...
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Jul 17, 2013
It seems CARP is a stateless Hash hence I thought perhaps Hash didn't create records, thanks for testing that. Minimising memory usage (by persistence records) seems to be the main driver of hash but it seems it's flexible enough to do more with some math. See here: https://devcentral.f5.com/tech-tips/articles/hash-load-balancing-and-persistence-on-big-ip-ltm/. It's still not clear to me how it works though, when using Election or CARP.