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sundogbrew's avatar
sundogbrew
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Mar 05, 2014

Quick question about persistence...

This is F5 101, but I am not sure how to fix it. So when you look at persistence I get a little confused sometimes. If I want to migrate traffic off a node, my thought was you create a cookie with ...
application delivery
LTM
management
performance
Christopher_Boo's avatar
Christopher_Boo
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Mar 05, 2014

Every situation is different, but in my experience, if I disable a node, then come back in an hour, there are either no or very few connections. Do you have any idea what the average user session time is? Is there a least active time of day you could do the patches? For my primary ecom app there is very little activity in the early morning. I can disable a node and have no connections in just a few minutes during that time.

 

Chris