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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 LTM is a load balancer, but it's how we need to use it.

 

How can I make this happen please, as using priority groups still partially shares load. I've looked at ratios, but still believe there will be some connections on my standby server.

 

Any assistance welcomed :)

 

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  • nitass's avatar
    nitass
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    May 28, 2014

    and the final one was, "I'm guessing 'Load Balancing Method' is irrelevant in my scenario with only 1 server in each Prio Grp?"

     

    yes, you are correct. :-)