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Mark_35110
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May 27, 2014

Two servers, one pool - failover, not load-balanced?!

Hi all, I have 2 servers in 1 pool. I want one to be the prime server, and the other one only to be used if the prime one fails. I want no form of load balancing! I know this seems bizarre, as the F5...
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Mark_35110
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May 27, 2014

Perhaps I have it working anyway, please have a look at What I have configured right now for my pool:

Server Name     IP Address  Ratio   Prio Grp
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Server1:4080    192.168.50.1    1   5
Server2:4080    192.168.50.2    1   0

Priority Group Activation = Less than, 1 available member.

This should mean that Server1 is prime and remains prime until it goes down. At this point the LTM should flip to Server2. The reason I'm questioning the above is that when I look at the Pools statistics I see traffic to both Server1 and Server2!