Ratio and Slow Ramp Time

Rob: Slow ramp really only applies to new pool members or disabled/re-enabled members. Its purpose is to gradually add connections to the new pool member over time, and it's mostly geared toward any LB method that has least connections as a component.

 

 

For example, if you're using least connections and you add a new member to the pool, it'll get slammed with new traffic because the LTM will see it has no connections. Slow ramp will smooth this out over time so the new system won't get overrun with connections all at once.

 

 

For your specific scenario I don't think you'll be affected by slow ramp at all. Instead, I'd expect any *new* connections from your load tests to honor the new ratio and any existing connections in service to run as they were before the change.

 

 

If anyone has any other input/corrections on this please post.

 

 

-Matt