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Brian_123250
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Oct 24, 2017

Rebalance the load when a down server becomes active again

Say you have 10 clients connecting to a virtual server all split between 2 pool members (5 and 5) using least connection members as the load balancing method and source address persistence. Say a po...
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Kai_Wilke
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Oct 24, 2017

Hi Brian,

 

you could switch to a CARP persistence profile based on the Source-IP of the connecting client.

 

By using CARP the load will be evenly hash distributed between your members with build-in failover and automatic failback support.

 

The only limitation is, that CARP does not provide an as good job as "least connection" load balancing for just a few clients. But the more clients you have the better gets the result...

 

Cheers, Kai