Revisiting Hash Load Balancing and Persistence on BIG-IP LTM

A good while back Deb wrote up hash load balancing. She made some really good points in her introduction that bear repeating:   Load balancing of cache and proxy servers has long been a standar...
Published Jan 21, 2011
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standard deviation in this case isn't related to rate so I wouldn't expect it to change at all, though I would expect CPU to climb as rate increases with the additional calculations.

 

 

I haven't retested with adding/subtracting a member, but with VE and a test source it should be pretty straight forward to set up the environment I detail above.