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Mark_Everest_58
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May 09, 2011

Taking individual virtual folders out of a pool in LTM

Hello all,     I'm a Big-IP pre-newbie (i.e. this is a pre-sales question!)       I am looking at implementing a load-balancing solution in my organisation, not only to assist with appli...
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Hamish
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May 09, 2011

 

Absolutely.

 

 

The load balancing goes from Virtual Server (The IP:Port that listens for inbound client connections on the LTM) to a (Or several) pool. Each pool is comprised of poolmembers which consist of a target IP:Port combination.

 

 

So taking one poolmember out from a backend server doesn't affect others. In fact you can got even further and have the same poolmember in multiple pools and have SOME of them disabled, and some enabled.

 

 

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