F5 is upgrading its customer support chat feature on My.F5.com. Chat support will be unavailable from 6am-10am PST on 1/20/26. Refer to K000159584 for details.

Forum Discussion

Greg_33932's avatar
Greg_33932
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Apr 11, 2013

Proper presistance configuration

We are experencing some issues with presistance where it looses presistance when we are using Round Robin. I was hoping to get exact details on what is the proper setup for this to work. Any help is ...
config
design
Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
Icon for Employee rankEmployee
Apr 12, 2013
Dual-tier environments are always tricky in terms of persistence. I believe the "official" BMC Remedy config for load balanced services recommends source address affinity for the lower tier (RP) resources. While that would definitely work here, it doesn't provide the most even distribution of load to the lower tiers machines.

 

 

I haven't done this in awhile, but try creating custom cookie persistence profiles for each VIP that uses a different cookie name, them verify that the client gets both.