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mElhoussini_204
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Sep 09, 2015

ACTIVE / PASSIVE preemption

Hi,   we have implemented active / passive load balance between 2 servers A=Active B=Passive using priority groups.   it works fine as all traffic (persistent traffic ) goes to A , when A goe...
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Ed_Summers
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Sep 10, 2015

If you only have two servers in this scenario, you shouldn't need to use persistence. However, the issue will remain as any active connections on server B would remain on server B even if server A resumes service.

 

What type of traffic is this? Is this something fairly short-lived, that would finish its transaction and close the connection so it would return to server A shortly after server A resumes? Or is this an application that typically holds a connection open for a long period of time?