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Mike_Harpe_6170
Nimbostratus
May 16, 2014User wants perfect 'Round Robin' load distribution
I have a LTM VS with a pool of 40 nodes. The VS is doing SSL offload. The nodes consist of four IP addresses each serving 10 different TCP ports. The hardware is an active/standby pair of 8900s runni...
What_Lies_Bene1
Cirrostratus
May 16, 2014I would suggest Least Connections would actually be better.
What you have to remember with Round Robin is that it doesn't take into account the length of a session. So, lets say you had three servers. Connection 1 to server 1 lasts 30 seconds, connection 2 to server 2 lasts 10 minutes, connection 3 to server three lasts 5. Connection 4 to server 1 lasts 29 seconds. Connection 5 to server 2 lasts 3 minutes.
After 1 minute server 1 has 0 connections, server 2 has 2, server 3 has 1.
Keep going and you can see how things get all uneven.
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