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Luca_55898
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Jun 21, 2011

Two VIPs - Same pool?

Hi,

 

 

Can you assign the same resource pool to multiple VIPs?

 

If so, is this a reccomened way to configure?

 

6 Replies

  • Is it OK even if the VIPs will be configured in different subnets/VLANs and have traffic hitting them from different directions (external and internal for example)

     

  • yes if traffic can hit vip, bigip can send it to pool member.
  • Yes. Each IP Address has the ability to be configured as multiple Virtual Servers with a different service port on each.

     

     

    Example:

     

    vs.example.com.http - IP Address 10.10.10.10 Port 80

     

    vs.example.com.https - IP Address 10.10.10.10 Port 443

     

    vs.example.com.ssl - IP Address 10.10.10.10 Port 22

     

     

    The only caveat is that you cannot have the same IP Address configured on multiple Virtual Servers using the same port.

     

     

    Example:

     

    vs.www.example1.com.http - IP Address 10.10.10.10 Port 80

     

    vs.www.example2.com.http - IP Address 10.10.10.10 Port 80 - INVALID

     

     

    You can however have both websites pointed / sharing a single Virtual Server.

     

     

    Example:

     

     

    www.example1.com to 10.10.10.10

     

    www.example2.com to 10.10.10.10

     

     

    You could then separate the different website traffic using an iRule.
  • Bhanu's avatar
    Bhanu
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    Yes this can be done.

     

     

    This is how I do though. I create different pools(even though they have the same members) with specific pool names which service that particular application. I am doing it this way by choice to conform with the methodologies we follow which makes for easier documentation, etc...

     

     

    -B