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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
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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

 

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Gautham_382103
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Jan 24, 2019

Hi Wlopez,

 

Thank you for your input. In response to your questions :

 

It is a https based application.

 

I would like the SSL traffic to pass-through to the end server.

 

All users are coming from the Internet.

 

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 ?

 

I am sorry if it is a lot of questions but this is the first time I am working on an lb. Just trying to make sure I have the best fit.