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THi
Feb 13, 2015Nimbostratus
If the pools are similar (e.g. same application listening to multiple ports/multiple app instances on each server), you may even use one pool with port any. And either use iRule or ACLs (even AFM or external FW) to restrict the ports to those you need. As normal with using port any, the port translation is disabled at the VS. Pay attention to persistence and monitors as there will be only one pool with two members in this case.
I had a case where there were 20+ ports and the customer had created a lot of front end and backend VSes and pools, one set for each port. Using wildcard VSes and pools the config was reduced 20+ fold..