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Margvin
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Apr 17, 2023

The Effect of Persistence on the Round Robin Method

HI F5 Warriors   I have a trouble from my costumer.Which in his server on the server he experiences very different traffic differences between their servers and in the F5 settings he has used the R...
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Thanks for the answer

but which dynamic load balancing method is better to use for these conditions? because as you said that persistence has a higher entry value

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CA_Valli
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Apr 17, 2023

Do you have the possibility to try them out in a test plant before installing? Every environment is different from another and different method might perform better in some cases and worse in others. 

Least Connections (node based) can be a "safe bet" if server farm is omogeneous and the goal is to even out traffic load. 
I wouldn't go for session-based in this case since as I said sourceIP persistence doesn't really like NATs.