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Scott_Hopkins
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Oct 06, 2010

Connection Mirroring Overhead

I'm looking in to enabling Connection Mirroring on our LTM HA pairs. Does anyone out there have any feedback, suggestions, or gotchas on doing this? I know we'll take a hit on CPU, which we have roo...
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hooleylist
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Oct 07, 2010
I think the overhead is high enough that you'd only want to use it on protocol-specific virtual servers where the protocol doesn't gracefully handle drops and the connections are long-lived. As Chris said, HTTP/S is definitely not something worthwhile to use connection mirroring for.

 

 

Aaron