Remote LTM pooling or connection deflection

Hi Matt,

 

The simple answer is, if I understood you right, no

 

If you terminate a session on a VS on LTM-1 Client will always connect to this virtual, since DNS is resoving to this address allways.

 

If you would send a redirect to the client the new connection could then end up on a Virtual based on LTM-2,LTM3 aso. This is not very sexy, since you could not weight availability, GeoLocation or usage.

 

GTM would help here, and would also be able to answer DNS requests from the same DNS Resolver allways with the same VS IP Adress (VS on BIG-IP-1, or VS on BIG-IP-2 aso.)

 

All of this virtuals would then be able to handle several Pool Members and Cookies of Cookie Persistence are honored at that point.

 

In my opinion a pair of BIG-IP's should be able to handle all requests you need. Just make sure to account the number of Requests expected overall.

 

 

Kind Regards

 

 

wiesmann