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paul_125686
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Nov 21, 2013

Pool Member server requesting to load balance back to itself

Hello,   I am in the process of using the f5 to load balance the EMC SourceOne application. It is using HTTPS, TCP ports 8001 and 8002. Currently only one member server is active in the pool and...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Dec 13, 2013

I believe the idea here wasn't to point to the VIP but to the host itself in the hosts file. You'd want the server to resolve its FQDN to itself directly so that it does not go through the VIP, otherwise you'd need to apply a SNAT.