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Tony_102787
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Jul 28, 2016

Observed Method for ISP Load Balancing?

Hi F5,   We would like to ask how does F5 measure the load balancing based on Observed Method.   Because we would like to use Observed Method as Load Balancing algorithm in our F5 LC with two ...
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Vijay_E
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Jul 28, 2016

Fastest is based on the response time of the servers.

 

Observed uses a combination of Fastest and Least Connections in order to create a number for each pool member and sends traffic to the pool member based on this number. However, I haven't been able to find information on the exact algorithm.