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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...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
May 17, 2014+1 for WLB's explanation. It might be that the load balancing itself is even, but that actual sessions are greater or lesser on different systems based on what the user is doing. Try this iRule and see what you get:
when LB_SELECTED {
log local0. [LB::server]
}
It's going to report the chosen server in every load balancing event. Do you see even distribution with round robin? Least Connections is a good way to temper that, but then you'll never really attain a perfect balance across all of the servers as long as the data flowing across the sessions (what the user is asking for) can be different.
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