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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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wlopez_98779
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Jan 24, 2019

If you're looking for a platform recommendation (hardware or virtual) it would depend on the traffic volume and how basic/advanced a configuration you'll be doing. If you need high availability you'll need two boxes as an Active/Standby pair. The current smallest model is the i2600.

 

If you're looking for a load balancing configuration recommendation it would depend on things like: Will you do ssl offloading?

 

Is it an http based web application?

 

Are the users coming from the internet or through an internal proxy server?

 

For example:

 

SSL offload on the F5

 

Cookie insert persistence (Primary)

 

Source Address persistence (Fallback)

 

Pool with the three servers:

 

Load balancing Method = Least Connections (Node) Health Monitor = http or https Pool