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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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nitass
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May 27, 2014

the point is when server1 comes back up, existing connection will still go to server2 but new connection will go to server1. if this is acceptable, your configuration should be fine.