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Josh_41258
May 06, 2010Nimbostratus
Understanding Round Robin
Hoping someone can clarify this for me.
I have several VIP's that all use the same pool. This pool uses the "Round Robin" load balancing method.
Is each connection to each VIP round robin'd indepen...
Michael_Yates
May 06, 2010Nimbostratus
What you have is correct. Round Robin is handled on a per Virtual Server basis, even if there is another Virtual Server using the same servers, or even the same pool.
Using Round Robin does not keep the load distribution equal to all of your servers (It doesn't care. If it is a servers turn in the rotation, it gets the traffic regardless of the current load).
If you wish to keep your connections equal per Pool, use "Least Connections (member)". - This tracks all of the connections for each server, for this pool, on this Virtual Server. (If the same pool is being used by a different Virtual Server those connections are handled seperately).
If you wish to keep your connections equal per Server, use "Least Connections (node)". - This tracks all of the connections to the Node in all Pools.
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