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Gautham_382103
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Jan 24, 2019

What is a good load balancing solution for the following scenario ?

Hello,   We are looking to deploy a Load balancer for Web Application Delivery in our datacenter. We have about 100 clients and about 10,000 concurrent connections. Currently we only have a single...
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AMiles_377865
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Jan 24, 2019

Probably least connections (node). The default behavior, round robin, doesn't really take sticky persistence into account, whereas least connections balances according to the current load on each server.

 

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    Gautham_382103
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    Jan 24, 2019

    Hi AMiles,

     

    Thank you so much for your response. I have one more question.

     

    Does the least connection method work based on the connection to the nodes only or does it take into account the CPU/RAM usage of the servers as well ?

     

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    AMiles_377865
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    Jan 24, 2019

    Hello Gautham,

     

    Least connections (node) does NOT take into account the current cpu/ram usage: it is based solely on the traffic your load balancer is sending to your pool members. There are other methods that take factors like that into account, which perform with varying degrees of success.

     

    HERE'S a link to the methods F5 supports.