Create a pool of virtual servers

You can configure cloning traffic right in the VIP-configuration (i.e. send it to a pool). Is that what you are looking for?

Are you actually wanting two identical copies of the connection to send each one to two different VS's? Or do you have a connection being processed by VIP A and you want to perform some logic on the connection on VIP A and if it meets a certain condition then have VIP A send the connection to VIP B to handle?

If the latter, then you can use a node statement in the irule of VIP A

...some logic
if { $LOGIC eq "1" } {
   node IP_VIPB PORT_FOR_VIPB
} else {
   return
}

If the former, then you are basically limited to connection cloning and/or sideband connections

Im wanting to send identical traffic to a VS as well as to the intended production server. I need to be able to send the identical traffic to the VS to manipulate the URI prior to sending it to an IDS.

Gotcha, okay I am not sure if cloning will meet your needs since you want the forked connection to actually got to another VS and not just to another backend pool.

It seems like a sideband connection would work for this, are there certain limitations on sidebands that are blocking you from that route?

Yes, ive set up the side band server and seem to get the requests ok for the most part. Im seeing two issues: 1.) How do i prevent responses from the sideband server from coming in? I just want the sideband server to update the uri and move the traffic to a certain pool.

2.) How do i fork the response traffic from the production server to the sideband server? It seems i can do an HTTP::collect and HTTP::payload for the request, but not the response.